Hi, Some time ago I noticed that in postmaster.c there's a corner case which probably causes postmaster to exit in out-of-memory condition. See BackendStartup, near the bottom, there's a call to DLNewElem(). The problem is that this function calls palloc() and thus can elog(ERROR) on OOM, but postmaster has no way to defend itself from this and would die.
I haven't ever seen postmaster die from this, but I don't think it's a good idea to let it be like this, given the strict promises we make about its reliability. Probably a simple PG_TRY block around the DLNewElem call suffices ...? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
