Re: 9.0 beta2 pg_upgrade: malloc 0 bytes patch

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Steve Singer <ssinger(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.0 beta2 pg_upgrade: malloc 0 bytes patch
Date: 2010-06-16 19:44:11
Message-ID: 201006161944.o5GJiBF13466@momjian.us
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Steve Singer wrote:
>
> Running pg_upgrade against an unmodified (the output of initdb) cluster
> on AIX is giving me "pg_alloc: Out of memory" errors.
>
> On some non-linux platforms (including AIX) malloc(0) returns 0.
>
> with the attached patch to pg_upgrade I am now able to get pg_upgrade to
> convert an 8.3 database consisting of a single table to 9.0 on an AIX
> server.

Great, thanks for your testing. I have applied a modified version of
the patch, attached.

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