Hi,
Some time ago I noticed that in postmaster.c there's a corner case which
probably causes postmaster to exit in out-of-memory condition. See
BackendStartup, near the bottom, there's a call to DLNewElem(). The
problem is that this function calls palloc() and thus can elog(ERROR) on
OOM, but postmaster has no way to defend itself from this and would die.
I haven't ever seen postmaster die from this, but I don't think it's a
good idea to let it be like this, given the strict promises we make
about its reliability. Probably a simple PG_TRY block around the
DLNewElem call suffices ...?
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