Re: unchecked out of memory in postmaster.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I think a patch to solve this is as simple as the attached.
> 
> I guess I need to point out that those ereport calls already pose a far
> more substantial risk of palloc failure than the DLNewElem represents.

Hmm, do they?  I mean, don't they use ErrorContext, which is supposed to
be preallocated?

> You seem to have forgotten about releasing the DLElem if the fork fails,
> too.

Doh, sorry about that.

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