| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size <a_big_number_here> |
| Date: | 2005-10-27 14:00:37 |
| Message-ID: | 20051027140037.GB880@surnet.cl |
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Matteo Beccati wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> >Well, this apparently indicates a bug in the new multixact code, but
> >there's not enough info here to figure out what went wrong. Can you
> >create a test case that will let someone else reproduce the problem?
>
> Unfortunately the error pops up randomly in a very complex app/db and I
> am unable to produce a test case :(
>
> Lat me know what other I can do to help fixing the bug.
It would be good to see the contents of MultiXactState. I suspect
there's a race condition in the MultiXact code.
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