Re: "bogus aset link"

Thanks!
Your advice helped me find what caused the problem immediately. It was a
wrong 'palloc' as you suspected (and as usual for me ;-) ).

Ntinos Katsaros

Tom Lane writes:

> ntinos(at)aueb(dot)gr writes:
>> While writting some code for the backend (some SPI-like functions for a
>> project) I saw this message:
>
>> "WARNING: problem in alloc set ExecutorState: bogus aset link in block
>> 0x8301270, chunk 0x8304458"
>
>> I think there is something wrong with some of the memory allocations I do,
>> but this message is not helping me much in finding the exact error.
>
> The most likely bet is that your code wrote past the end of a memory
> chunk it had palloc'd, and thereby clobbered the bookkeeping info for
> the next physically adjacent chunk.
>
> You could home in on the location of the clobber by sprinkling
> "MemoryContextCheck(TopMemoryContext)" calls through your code.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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