Re: Large data field causes a backend crash.

> pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:
> > Large data field causes a backend crash.
>
> > test=# copy test from '/stf/bruc/RnD/genscan/foo.test';
> > TRAP: Too Large Allocation Request("!(0 < (size) && (size) <= ((Size) 0xfffffff)):size=268435456 [0x10000000]",
File:"mcxt.c", Line: 478) 
> > !(0 < (size) && (size) <= ((Size) 0xfffffff)) (0) [No such file or directory]
>
> Yeah, this should probably be treated as a plain elog(ERROR) now,
> instead of an Assert failure ...

Tom, can you give a little more detail.  Why does the copy fail here?

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