Re: Out of memory error causes Abort, Abort tries to allocate memory

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Jeff Davis wrote:
>> * smgrGetPendingDeletes() calls palloc()
>> * palloc() fails, resulting in ERROR, causing infinite recursion

> Hmm, maybe we could have AbortTransaction switch to ErrorContext, which
> has some preallocated space, before calling RecordTransactionAbort (or
> maybe have RecordTransactionAbort itself do it).

Seems like it'd be smarter to try to free some memory before we push
forward with transaction abort.  ErrorContext has only a limited amount
of space ...

            regards, tom lane