pgsql: Fix out-of-memory error handling in ParameterDescription message

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix out-of-memory error handling in ParameterDescription message
Date: 2015-12-14 16:56:19
Message-ID: E1a8WQ7-0001VQ-SL@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix out-of-memory error handling in ParameterDescription message processing.

If libpq ran out of memory while constructing the result set, it would hang,
waiting for more data from the server, which might never arrive. To fix,
distinguish between out-of-memory error and not-enough-data cases, and give
a proper error message back to the client on OOM.

There are still similar issues in handling COPY start messages, but let's
handle that as a separate patch.

Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila and me. Backpatch to all supported versions.

Branch
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REL9_1_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4b58ded7498fccac1526cb27788dd7baad651b14

Modified Files
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src/interfaces/libpq/fe-protocol3.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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