Re: The return value of allocate_recordbuf() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2015-01-05 14:18:35 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Note that for 9.4, I think that we should complain about an OOM in
> logical.c where malloc is used as now process would simply crash if
> NULL is returned by XLogReaderAllocate. That's the object of the
> second patch.

Yes, that's clearly an oversight...

>      ctx->reader = XLogReaderAllocate(read_page, ctx);
> +    if (!ctx->reader)
> +        ereport(ERROR,
> +                (errcode(ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY),
> +                 errmsg("out of memory"),
> +                 errdetail("Failed while allocating an XLog reading processor.")));
> +

I've removed the errdetail() as a) its content is quite confusing b) we
don't add error details that don't add more information than the
function name already does as it's implicitly included in the logging.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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