Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/838#discussion_r117580289 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/physical/impl/ScanBatch.java --- @@ -173,9 +174,8 @@ public IterOutcome next() { currentReader.allocate(mutator.fieldVectorMap()); } catch (OutOfMemoryException e) { - logger.debug("Caught Out of Memory Exception", e); clearFieldVectorMap(); - return IterOutcome.OUT_OF_MEMORY; + throw UserException.memoryError(e).build(logger); --- End diff -- Good question. Yes, since the `FragmentExecutor` already handles errors and unwinds, we just exploit that (existing, working) path instead of the (also existing, but harder-to-keep working) path of `fail`/`STOP`. The (managed) external sort, for example, reports all its errors via exceptions; it does not use `fail`/`STOP`. The fragment executor recovers just fine.
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