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

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>]

Matteo Beccati wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >Should I try Alvaro's second patch that you said not going to work?
> 
> I'll add that this works for me, that's it prevents invalid alloc 
> requests to show.

Yeah, the problem with that patch is that there's another, different
race condition, of much lower probability.  So your original problem is
fixed, but there's still a bug.

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Alvaro Herrera                           Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org
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