Re: nested hstore - large insert crashes server

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Erik Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: "Christian Kruse" <christian(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru, obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com, andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net
Subject: Re: nested hstore - large insert crashes server
Date: 2014-02-04 19:14:59
Message-ID: 27718.1391541299@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Erik Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
> On Tue, February 4, 2014 18:56, Christian Kruse wrote:
>> Did you check if this was the OOM killer? Should be logged in dmesg.

> I would be surprised if it wasn't. (no access to that machine at the moment)

> How do we regard such crashes? It seems to me this was rather eaasily 'provoked' (for want of a better word).

Well, it suggests that there may be a memory leak, which would be a bug
even though we'd assign it lower priority than a true crash.

regards, tom lane

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