Re: PQexec() hangs on OOM

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PQexec() hangs on OOM
Date: 2015-07-10 13:42:43
Message-ID: CAB7nPqRgVD+zzG6i7kWqSgkbb5osc7E8eAb3PW3LvCp14G0OSA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> So, here are two patches aimed at fixing the hangling issues with
> getStartCopy and getParamDescriptions. After trying a couple of
> approaches, I found out that the most elegant way to prevent the
> infinite loop in parseInput is to introduce a new PGASYNC flag to
> control the error and let the caller know what happened.
>
> More refactoring could be done, and I think that the use of this new
> ASYNC flag could be spread to other places as well if you think that's
> a useful. For now I have focused only on fixing the existing problems
> with fixes that are rather back-patchable.
>

As those are actually new bug fixes, I am adding an entry in CF 2015-09.
--
Michael

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