Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Yogvinder Singh
Kaltenbrunner; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Yogvinder Singh yogvin...@newgen.co.in wrote: Correcting myself: Here is the version details template1=# select version

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Yogvinder Singh yogvin...@newgen.co.in wrote: That I'll do but that still won't answer the question : What is the reason for the data corruption leading to MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size That's because you may read the corrupt data and do further

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Yogvinder Singh
: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Yogvinder Singh yogvin...@newgen.co.in wrote: That I'll do but that still won't answer the question : What is the reason for the data corruption leading to MemoryContextAlloc: invalid

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Yogvinder Singh yogvin...@newgen.co.in wrote: Pavan, What is the possible reason for the data corruption? It could be anything from buggy hardware to bug in the code. As many have pointed out earlier, you are running a very old release and missing several bug

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Huxton
Yogvinder Singh wrote: Pavan, What is the possible reason for the data corruption? Yogvinder - you haven't provided any information for people to identify what is corrupted let alone why it is corrupted. Like I said in my reply on the 7th - it's either hardware problems or a bug in the code.

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Yogvinder Singh
To: yogvinder Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:07:02AM -0800, yogvinder wrote: Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. Not just pretty

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Yogvinder Singh wrote: What I am looking for is the version in which this problem has been resolved. I can't find it anywhere in the documentation. well there was by far not enough information in your original mail(not even the exact version you are on) to even verify that this is a data

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Yogvinder Singh
Sent: January 08, 2009 3:50 PM To: Yogvinder Singh Cc: 'David Fetter'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) Yogvinder Singh wrote: What I am looking for is the version in which this problem has been resolved. I can't

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Yogvinder Singh
...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Kaltenbrunner Sent: January 08, 2009 3:50 PM To: Yogvinder Singh Cc: 'David Fetter'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) Yogvinder Singh wrote: What I am looking for is the version

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Yogvinder Singh yogvin...@newgen.co.in wrote: Correcting myself: Here is the version details template1=# select version(); version

[GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread yogvinder
Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. I am getting the error MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size on many of these servers from time to time. On crawling through net, I have found that its because of some bad word value in a variable length

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Huxton
yogvinder wrote: Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. Which 7.3? Are you aware the community doesn't even officially support them now? I am getting the error MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size on many of these servers from time to

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:07:02AM -0800, yogvinder wrote: Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. Not just pretty old, but past any community support. You'll need to build and implement an upgrade strategy along with doing your upgrade. I