Re: [HACKERS] backend dies suddenly after a lot of error messages

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] backend dies suddenly after a lot of error messages
Date: 1999-05-13 02:44:39
Message-ID: 199905130244.WAA27614@candle.pha.pa.us
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> I was measuring about 4K per cycle for a trivial parsing error,
> like feeding "garbage;" to the backend repeatedly. It could be
> a *lot* more depending on how much work got done before the error
> was detected. Worst case you might lose megabytes...

The strange thing is that we don't usually hear about crash/leaks very
much. We just started hearing about it more in the past week or so.

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