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Re: What happened to the is_<type> family of functions proposal?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, "Colin 't Hart" <colinthart@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2010-09-21T23:35:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On Wednesday 22 September 2010 01:05:39 Tom Lane wrote:
>> Just for starters, what of a palloc() failure?

> Uhm. Isnt a palloc failure a really, really bad example because it will kill 
> the session anyway? FATAL+ is not relevant in that context, right?

Huh?  It's not fatal, just elog(ERROR, "out of memory").

			regards, tom lane