Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size <a_big_number_here>

[Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>]

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I don't see any easy way to fix this except by introducing a lot more
> > locking than is there now --- ie, holding the MultiXactGenLock until the
> > new mxact's starting offset has been written to disk.  Any better ideas?
>
> Well, it isn't a very good solution because it requires us to retain the
> MultiXactGenLock past a XLogInsert and some I/O on SLRU pages.
> Previously the lock was mostly only used in short operations and very
> rarely held during I/O.  But I don't see any other solution either.
> Patch attached.

The patch works wonderfully. I'm trying to stress the whole app and with 
no errors until now.


> Thanks to Matteo for finding the bug!

Thanks to you all for helping out and fixing it :)



Best regards
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Matteo Beccati
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