I think this is not my case.
See attachment log for details.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <dlibenzi@maticad.it>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>;
pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>; David
Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ODBC and palloc ...
>Davide Libenzi wrote:
>>
>> After a lot of changes I've compiled,linked and tested (regression) my
>> PostgreSQL installation no HPUX 9.*.
>>
>> I've also built and installed the ODBC driver and I get Ms Access error
>> which the PostgresSQL server log in "palloc failure : memory exausted".
>>
>> Is this a server bug or ODBC driver bug ?
>>
>
>I am assuming you have a fairly new odbc driver (6.30.0248 is the
>latest) and not the old postodbc. BTW, on our website
>(www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc) we have the DLL and a full install EXE
>for win32 so you wouldn't have to build it yourself from the source code
>if you didn't want to.
>
>The palloc failure usually occurs because Access uses the multiple OR
>query (select ... where a=1 OR a=2 OR a=3...) to access the recordset.
>The backend does not handle this very well and it is already well known
>on the TODO list.
>
>There are several possibilities to get past this:
>1. Use a non-updateable table (by setting the driver readonly option, or
>by not specifying any unique identifiers).
>2. For a query, use a snapshot recordset in the query properties.
>3. Show the OID column in the drivers advanced datasource options and
>use that alone to index on. You should create an index on it too. This
>is still slow, but at least shouldn't crash.
>
>Other possibilities:
>
>In house, Dave made a patch to postgres which rewrites the multiple OR
>query into a UNION query, which works great and its fast! We may make
>this patch available evntually on our website.
>
>Byron
>