Re: Logical replication 'invalid memory alloc request size 1585837200' after upgrading to 17.5

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
To: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@deepbluecap.com>, "pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-06-04T22:06:23Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
<kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Sawada-san,
>
> > Can we have a reasonable test case that covers the inval message overflow
> > cases?
>
> I have been considering how we add tests, but it needs lots of invalidation
> messages and consumes resources so much. Instead of that, how do you feel
> to use injection_points? If it is enabled, the threshold for overflow is much
> smaller than usual. Attached patch implemented the idea.

Alternative idea is to lower the constant value when using an
assertion build. That way, we don't need to rely on injection points
being enabled.

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
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Commits

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  1. Fix cache-dependent test failures in logical decoding.

  2. Fix re-distributing previously distributed invalidation messages during logical decoding.

  3. Fix data loss in logical replication.