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

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> Hmm. There is no way to check beforehand if a palloc() will fail because of
> OOM. We could check for MaxAllocSize, though.

I think we need a version of palloc that returns NULL instead of
throwing an error.  The error-throwing behavior is for the best in
almost every case, but I think the no-error version would find enough
users to be worthwhile.

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