On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > Hmm. There is no way to check beforehand if a palloc() will fail because of > OOM. We could check for MaxAllocSize, though.
I think we need a version of palloc that returns NULL instead of throwing an error. The error-throwing behavior is for the best in almost every case, but I think the no-error version would find enough users to be worthwhile. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
