Re: 9.0 beta2 pg_upgrade: malloc 0 bytes patch

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Steve Singer <ssinger@ca.afilias.info>

Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-06-16T19:44:11Z

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Steve Singer wrote:
> 
> Running pg_upgrade against an unmodified (the output of initdb) cluster 
> on AIX is giving me  "pg_alloc: Out of memory" errors.
> 
> On some non-linux platforms (including AIX) malloc(0) returns 0.
> 
> with the attached patch to pg_upgrade I am now able to get pg_upgrade to 
> convert an 8.3 database consisting of a single table to 9.0 on an AIX 
> server.

Great, thanks for your testing.  I have applied a modified version of
the patch, attached.

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