We should probably also log the fact that we ran out of room, so that the DBA knows that they ahve a design issue.
Can't they just bump allowed memory and avoid a redesign?
Alternately, it would be great to have a configuration option which would allow the DBA to choose any of 3 behaviors via GUC: drop-oldest (as above) drop-largest (if we run out of room, drop the largest payloads first to save space) error (if we run out of room, error and rollback)
I mentioned this up thread. I completely agree that overflow behavior should be tunable.
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