On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > On August 10, 2015 8:24:21 PM GMT+02:00, Fabien COELHO wrote: >>> You can't allocate 4GB with palloc(), it has a builtin limit against >>> allocating more than 1GB. >> >>Argh, too bad, I assumed very naively that palloc was malloc in >>disguise. > > It is, but there's some layering (memory pools/contexts) on top. You can get > huge allocations with polloc_huge.
palloc_huge does not exist yet ;) There is either repalloc_huge or palloc_extended now, though implementing one would be trivial. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
