[postgis-users] Error when getting geometry as binary

[Abe Gillespie]

This statement works fine:
SELECT extent(the_geom) from shape_table

But this statement:
SELECT asBinary(extent(the_geom)) from shape_table
results in:
ERROR:  invalid memory alloc request size 1074393504

I'm running PostgreSQL 7.4.1 / PostGIS 0.9.1 on a Debian Linux install.

Thanks.
-Abe