Re: logical decoding : exceeded maxAllocatedDescs for .spill files

Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Message-ID <CAA4eK1+aAG+K1-OzWU7Eqot0t+gJ-PYOzFxGj3T8d=xeeCLBoA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:15 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Noah Misch <[email protected]> writes:
> > Even so, a web search for "extend_brk" led to the answer.  By default, 32-bit
> > AIX binaries get only 256M of RAM for stack and sbrk.  The new regression test
> > used more than that, hence this crash.
>
> Hm, so
>
> (1) Why did we get a crash and not some more-decipherable out-of-resources
> error?  Can we improve that experience?
>
> (2) Should we be dialing back the resource consumption of this test?
> Even on machines where it doesn't fail outright, I'd imagine that it's
> costing a lot of buildfarm cycles.  Is it actually worth that?
>

After the latest changes by Noah, the tern and mandrill both are
green.   I will revert the test added by this patch unless there is
some strong argument to keep it.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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