[postgis-users] [postgis-devel] Has anyone seen this before?

[Ben Madin]

Mark,

On 08/02/2010, at 17:10 , Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> Paragon Corporation wrote:
> 
>> It should be noted that for this table
>> the_geom is the first field in the table and addr_num_tlid comes right after
>> and is a varchar
>> I can select any integer or bigint field fine, but selecting any text or
>> varchar field results in the ERROR:  invalid memory alloc request size 18446744073709551613
> 
> Yup, this is totally wrong. I suspect bad RAM and/or disk on the machine in question.

For only my own benefit possibly, but is this because the geometry column is being stored outside the normal table pages (the TOAST bit)?

cheers

Ben