On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is an >> issue that other people have run into in the past, and I don't think >> we have a good solution. I wonder if we should put some kind of a >> limit in place so that queries like this will at least fail relatively >> gracefully with an error message rather than taking down the box. > > Eh? That's exactly what's supposed to happen now. When malloc returns > 0 you're supposed to get a graceful error message and transaction > abort.
I didn't know that, but it I think by the time malloc returns 0 usually other bad things are happening. I don't think that's really an answer. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs