Avoid palloc in critical section in GiST WAL-logging.
Memory allocation can fail if you run out of memory, and inside a critical
section that will lead to a PANIC. Use conservatively-sized arrays in stack
instead.
There was previously no explicit limit on the number of pages a GiST split
can produce, it was only limited by the number of LWLocks that can be held
simultaneously (100 at the moment). This patch adds an explicit limit of 75
pages. That should be plenty, a typical split shouldn't produce more than
2-3 page halves.
The bug has been there forever, but only backpatch down to 9.1. The code
was changed significantly in 9.1, and it doesn't seem worth the risk or
trouble to adapt this for 9.0 and 8.4.
Branch
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REL9_1_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/05a5623766d527e1683901687dffc1cee9d7d273
Modified Files
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src/backend/access/gist/README | 2 +-
src/backend/access/gist/gist.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c | 16 ++++++++--------
src/include/access/gist_private.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
