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Re: Large data field causes a backend crash.

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: bruc@stone.congen.com, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-02-06T01:49:40Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:
> Large data field causes a backend crash.

> test=# copy test from '/stf/bruc/RnD/genscan/foo.test';
> TRAP: Too Large Allocation Request("!(0 < (size) && (size) <= ((Size) 0xfffffff)):size=268435456 [0x10000000]", File: "mcxt.c", Line: 478)
> !(0 < (size) && (size) <= ((Size) 0xfffffff)) (0) [No such file or directory]

Yeah, this should probably be treated as a plain elog(ERROR) now,
instead of an Assert failure ...

			regards, tom lane