Re: Out-of-memory error reports in libpq

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I should probably know this, but I don't. Nor did I quickly find an answer. I
> assume gettext() reliably and reasonably deals with OOM?

I've always assumed that their fallback in cases of OOM, can't read
the message file, yadda yadda is to return the original string.
I admit I haven't gone and checked their code, but it'd be
unbelievably stupid to do otherwise.

> Looking in the gettext code I'm again scared by the fact that it takes locks
> during gettext (because of stuff like erroring out of signal handlers, not
> OOMs).

Hm.

			regards, tom lane