On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm arguing for fixing the existing bug, and then addressing the case of
> over-estimation separately, with proper analysis.
Well, this is part of how we're looking it differently. I think the
bug is "we're passing a value to palloc that is too large, so
sometimes it fails" and the way to fix that is to properly limit the
value. You are clearly defining the bug a bit differently.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company