Some of our clients encountered a problem — they needed to allocate shared_buffers = 700 GB on a server with 1.5 TB RAM, and the error "invalid memory alloc request size 1835008000" occurred. That is, these are not mental exercises.
Daria Shanina <vilensipkdm@gmail.com> writes: > I have made a patch, now we can allocate more than 1 GB of memory for the > autoprewarm_dump_now function.
Is that solving a real-world problem? If it is, shouldn't we be looking for a different approach that doesn't require such a huge amount of memory?
