Re: ERROR during end-of-xact/FATAL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: ERROR during end-of-xact/FATAL
Date
Msg-id 20131220154406.GA22570@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: ERROR during end-of-xact/FATAL  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas escribió:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Robert Haas escribió:
> >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >> > Noah Misch wrote:
> >> >> Incomplete list:
> >> >>
> >> >> - If smgrDoPendingDeletes() finds files to delete, mdunlink() and its callee
> >> >>   relpathbackend() call palloc(); this is true in all supported branches.  In
> >> >>   9.3, due to commit 279628a0, smgrDoPendingDeletes() itself calls palloc().
> >> >>   (In fact, it does so even when the pending list is empty -- this is the only
> >> >>   palloc() during a trivial transaction commit.)  palloc() failure there
> >> >>   yields a PANIC during commit.
> >> >
> >> > I think we should fix this routine to avoid the palloc when not necessary.
> >> > That initial palloc is pointless.
> >
> > Here's a trivial patch we could apply to 9.3 immediately.  Anything else
> > such as the ideas proposed below would require more effort than anyone
> > can probably spend here soon.
> 
> Yeah, this seems like a good thing to do for now.

Pushed, thanks.

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