Re: Out of Memory errors are frustrating as heck!

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Gunther <raj(at)gusw(dot)net>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Out of Memory errors are frustrating as heck!
Date: 2019-04-21 08:08:22
Message-ID: 20190421080822.GB14223@telsasoft.com
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 01:03:50AM -0400, Gunther wrote:
> On 4/20/2019 21:14, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> >Maybe. But before wasting any more time on the memory leak investigation,
> >I suggest you first try the patch moving the BufFile allocations to a
> >separate context. That'll either confirm or disprove the theory.
>
> OK, fair enough. So, first patch 0001-* applied, recompiled and
>
> 2019-04-21 04:08:04.364 UTC [11304] LOG: server process (PID 11313) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault
...
> turns out the MemoryContext is NULL:
>
> (gdb) p context
> $1 = (MemoryContext) 0x0

I updated Tomas' patch to unconditionally set the context.
(Note, oldctx vs oldcxt is fairly subtle but I think deliberate?)

Justin

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