[postgis-users] PostGIS, 64 bit Solaris, Invalide memory alloc message using force_collection

[Michael Fuhr]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:52:36PM -0700, Erik Persson wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has experience running PostGIS on a 64 bit  
> version of Solaris running on the Sparc architecture.  The error  
> described below occurred when compiled as 64 bit.  A quick test on a  
> 32 bit Sparc machine indicates that the problem does not exist there.

I have a Sparc running Solaris 9.  All of my PostgreSQL-related
apps are 32-bit but when I get a chance I'll see if I can build
64-bit versions of everything and do some testing.

> Example of failure:
> pod=# select force_collection(the_point) from foo;
> ERROR:  invalid memory alloc request size 1073741824

That number is 0x40000000 (2**30), which seems interesting.

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Michael Fuhr