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

Matteo Beccati wrote:
> Tom, Alvaro
>
> >>The remaining question for me is, how do we sleep until the correct
> >>offset has been stored?
> >
> >I was thinking of just pg_usleep for some nominal time (1ms maybe)
> >and try to read the offsets page again. This is a corner case so
> >the performance doesn't have to be great.
>
> Let me know if you need to test some other patches.

Ok. I had hoped to reproduce the problem with pristine sources, in
order to verify that I was able to show it not appearing with my patch.
However I have been unable to create a situation in which the problem
appears. So I attach the patch that I came up with. Please test it.

I added a loop counter, to verify that we don't loop indefinitely. I'm
not sure that it's the best way to do it, but I'm too coward to leave it
without any check.

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