On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On August 10, 2015 8:24:21 PM GMT+02:00, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>>> You can't allocate 4GB with palloc(), it has a builtin limit against
>>> allocating more than 1GB.
>>
>>Argh, too bad, I assumed very naively that palloc was malloc in
>>disguise.
>
> It is, but there's some layering (memory pools/contexts) on top. You can get huge allocations with polloc_huge.
palloc_huge does not exist yet ;)
There is either repalloc_huge or palloc_extended now, though
implementing one would be trivial.
--
Michael
