On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:15 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > Even so, a web search for "extend_brk" led to the answer. By default, 32-bit
> > AIX binaries get only 256M of RAM for stack and sbrk. The new regression test
> > used more than that, hence this crash.
>
> Hm, so
>
> (1) Why did we get a crash and not some more-decipherable out-of-resources
> error? Can we improve that experience?
>
> (2) Should we be dialing back the resource consumption of this test?
>
In HEAD, we have a guc variable 'logical_decoding_work_mem' by which
we can control the memory usage of changes and we have used that, but
for back branches, we don't have such a control.
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