Re: [HACKERS] backend dies suddenly after a lot of error messages

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-05-13T02:44:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I was measuring about 4K per cycle for a trivial parsing error,
> like feeding "garbage;" to the backend repeatedly.  It could be
> a *lot* more depending on how much work got done before the error
> was detected.  Worst case you might lose megabytes...

The strange thing is that we don't usually hear about crash/leaks very
much.  We just started hearing about it more in the past week or so.


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