Re: hashtable crash (was Re: [PATCHES] Post-mortem: final 2PC patch)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: hashtable crash (was Re: [PATCHES] Post-mortem: final 2PC patch)
Date: 2005-06-18 22:29:47
Message-ID: 8707.1119133787@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Can you please look at
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
> and tell us which ones you would like turned on? Stefan suggests A F and
> G might be useful.

Not "A" please --- that's a pretty significant change in the behavior
of malloc and would break code that expects to be able to tolerate
out-of-memory conditions (which we do have, see palloc). F and G are
good, also J, maybe P though I doubt that one's very significant.

regards, tom lane

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