Re: hashtable crash (was Re: [PATCHES] Post-mortem: final 2PC patch) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: hashtable crash (was Re: [PATCHES] Post-mortem: final 2PC patch)
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Msg-id 8707.1119133787@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: hashtable crash (was Re: [PATCHES] Post-mortem: final  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Can you please look at 
>
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

> and tell us which ones you would like turned on? Stefan suggests A F and 
> G might be useful.

Not "A" please --- that's a pretty significant change in the behavior
of malloc and would break code that expects to be able to tolerate
out-of-memory conditions (which we do have, see palloc).  F and G are
good, also J, maybe P though I doubt that one's very significant.
        regards, tom lane


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