On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>> =A0This is an
>> issue that other people have run into in the past, and I don't think
>> we have a good solution. =A0I wonder if we should put some kind of a
>> limit in place so that queries like this will at least fail relatively
>> gracefully with an error message rather than taking down the box.
>
> Eh? That's exactly what's supposed to happen now. When malloc returns
> 0 you're supposed to get a graceful error message and transaction
> abort.
I didn't know that, but it I think by the time malloc returns 0
usually other bad things are happening. I don't think that's really
an answer.
...Robert