Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Out of memory throws FATAL, which just exits the backend.
>
> Au contraire --- in most places it just throws ERROR.
>
> There are a few poorly-coded spots that throw FATAL if malloc fails.
> That should be cleaned up someday, at least for the ones that are likely
> to occur while running (startup code I think isn't an issue).
Oh, I knew some threw fatal, but yes, the common ones just throw an
error on the query. Once malloc gives an error, any attempt to increase
our memory will fail, but we continue with the memory we have already
allocated.
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