Chander Ganesan <chander.gane...@gmail.com> writes: > I get this whenever I try to do a pg_dump. Curiously, if I *decrease* > shared buffers waaaay down, I find that these errors go away.
32-bit machine no doubt? There's a limit to how big a datum can be slung around in a 32-bit address space, and it's not very many tens of megabytes if you've got shared_buffers eating a large chunk of that address space. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin