On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 04:49:27PM +0100, Garrett Heaver wrote: > I have a table with circa 5.5Million rows and an int4[] column containing > about 28 elements each. > > When I try to put a CREATE INDEX name ON table USING gist(column); > I get the following : > > ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 2825271912
Hmm. Have you tried a plain SELECT * FROM table? It sounds like your table may be corrupt. Another alternative is that the opclass functions are buggy. If the table is not corrupt, you could try giving us complete working instructions to try to reproduce the bug. -- Alvaro Herrera -- Valdivia, Chile Architect, www.EnterpriseDB.com "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end." (2nd Commandment for C programmers) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
