Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size

[Johann Spies]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:18:37AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Johann Spies wrote:
> >> #3  0x00000000005ff1c8 in perform_default_encoding_conversion (
> >> src=0x2b881e87f040 "\"2007-04-20\" \"18:07:06\" \"192.168.0.100\" \"73\" 
> >> \"http://www.kerkbode.co.za/kerkbode/images/blank.gif\\\"\"\n\"2007-04-20\";
> >>  \"18:07:06\" \"192.168.0.100\" \"69\" 
> >> \"http://develop.christians.co.za/phpAdsNew/adx.js\"\n\"20";..., 
> >> len=337739539, is_client_to_server=5 '\005') at mbutils.c:461
> 
> 
> > Interesting.  You are passing a single 300 MB string here, not
> > 90-something char lines.  The problem is probably in newlines.  Why are
> > they not getting used as line separators escapes me.
> 
> Stripped of gdb's own backslashing, the data seems to be 
> 
>       ...images/blank.gif\""
                           ^^

And that is where the problem is. 

>       "2007...
> 
> which leads me to think that the dump was generated on the assumption
> that backslash is the escape character, but is being reloaded under a
> different assumption. 

Backslash is indeed used as escape character.  I see now that I should
have specified it in my copy command!

I have figured out how to do it now and successfully imported that part
of the logs into a table.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Johann
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