Re: [E] Re: BUG #18938: Logical replication failure in 16.9: "invalid memory alloc request size 1372786672" - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM John Hutchins
> <John.Hutchins@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > Thanks very much for your reply.
> >
> > > The configuration details would help the investigation.
> >
> > Here are all configs which may be relevant:
> >
> > wal_level = logical
> > max_replication_slots = 20
> > max_logical_replication_workers = 14
> > max_wal_senders = 20
> > wal_keep_size = 4096
> > max_wal_size = 4GB
> > min_wal_size = 1GB
> > wal_sender_timeout = 300s
> > archive_mode = on
> > archive_command = 'true'
> > archive_timeout = 3600
> > max_worker_processes = 18
> > max_connections = 1000
> > shared_buffers = 10GB
> > maintenance_work_mem = 2GB
> > work_mem = 26214kB
> > effective_cache_size = 30GB
> > effective_io_concurrency = 200
> >
> > > IIUC this issue could happen especially if there are many concurrent
> > > transactions that perform DDLs. Does this match the workload on your
> > > server?
> >
> > I'm not sure if our workload would contain "many concurrent transactions that perform DDLs." Our workload includes
DDLsto create temporary tables and also "ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE TRIGGER" statements that are single-threaded, but
mayrun concurrently with other DML operations. So, in our workloads, there is a possibility of overlap between DDL
(triggermanagement and temporary table creation) and DML from other sessions. 
> >
>
> It can happen in this workload due to the reason explained in email
> [1]. We are talking about the right fix for the problem.

I pushed the fix for this issue[1].

Regards,

[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=d87d07b7ad3b782cb74566cd771ecdb2823adf6a

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