Re: <EXTERNAL> Re: Invalid memory alloc querying field type bytea

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: "Thompson, Shon" <Shon(dot)Thompson(at)MaineGeneral(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: <EXTERNAL> Re: Invalid memory alloc querying field type bytea
Date: 2020-07-09 14:23:36
Message-ID: a9e2d6a1-5476-889a-7a4a-89462efe9a1b@joeconway.com
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On 7/8/20 11:25 AM, Thompson, Shon wrote:
> Postgres returns the smaller rows without errors, but cannot return the two
> largest bytea fields. The length function for the bytea data of these two
> rows returns:

> 647,034,150
> 819,319,303

>> "ERROR: XX000: invalid memory alloc request size 1294068297"

The problem is probably byteaout rendering the bytes as (presumably) hex, which
takes ~twice as many bytes as the data, and runs afoul of MaxAllocSize.

Joe

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