Re: 9.0 beta2 pg_upgrade: malloc 0 bytes patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Steve Singer wrote:
>
> Running pg_upgrade against an unmodified (the output of initdb) cluster
> on AIX is giving me  "pg_alloc: Out of memory" errors.
>
> On some non-linux platforms (including AIX) malloc(0) returns 0.
>
> with the attached patch to pg_upgrade I am now able to get pg_upgrade to
> convert an 8.3 database consisting of a single table to 9.0 on an AIX
> server.

Great, thanks for your testing.  I have applied a modified version of
the patch, attached.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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Index: contrib/pg_upgrade/tablespace.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pg_upgrade/tablespace.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -c -r1.1 tablespace.c
*** contrib/pg_upgrade/tablespace.c    12 May 2010 02:19:11 -0000    1.1
--- contrib/pg_upgrade/tablespace.c    16 Jun 2010 19:37:23 -0000
***************
*** 38,44 ****
  {
      PGconn       *conn = connectToServer(ctx, "template1", CLUSTER_OLD);
      PGresult   *res;
-     int            ntups;
      int            tblnum;
      int            i_spclocation;

--- 38,43 ----
***************
*** 48,59 ****
                              "WHERE    spcname != 'pg_default' AND "
                              "        spcname != 'pg_global'");

!     ctx->num_tablespaces = ntups = PQntuples(res);
!     ctx->tablespaces = (char **) pg_malloc(ctx, ntups * sizeof(char *));

      i_spclocation = PQfnumber(res, "spclocation");

!     for (tblnum = 0; tblnum < ntups; tblnum++)
          ctx->tablespaces[tblnum] = pg_strdup(ctx,
                                       PQgetvalue(res, tblnum, i_spclocation));

--- 47,61 ----
                              "WHERE    spcname != 'pg_default' AND "
                              "        spcname != 'pg_global'");

!     if ((ctx->num_tablespaces = PQntuples(res)) != 0)
!         ctx->tablespaces = (char **) pg_malloc(ctx,
!                                     ctx->num_tablespaces * sizeof(char *));
!     else
!         ctx->tablespaces = NULL;

      i_spclocation = PQfnumber(res, "spclocation");

!     for (tblnum = 0; tblnum < ctx->num_tablespaces; tblnum++)
          ctx->tablespaces[tblnum] = pg_strdup(ctx,
                                       PQgetvalue(res, tblnum, i_spclocation));