Re: Out-of-memory error reports in libpq

Em qua., 28 de jul. de 2021 às 21:25, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> escreveu:

> I wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> >> Hm. It seems we should be able to guarantee that the recovery path can
> print
> >> something, at least in the PGconn case. Is it perhaps worth pre-sizing
> >> PGConn->errorMessage so it'd fit an error like this?
> >> But perhaps that's more effort than it's worth.
>
> > Yeah.  I considered changing things so that oom_buffer contains
> > "out of memory\n" rather than an empty string, but I'm afraid
> > that that's making unsupportable assumptions about what PQExpBuffers
> > are used for.
>
> Actually, wait a minute.  There are only a couple of places that ever
> read out the value of conn->errorMessage, so let's make those places
> responsible for dealing with OOM scenarios.  That leads to a nicely
> small patch, as attached, and it looks to me like it makes us quite
> bulletproof against such scenarios.
>
> It might still be worth doing the "pqReportOOM" changes to save a
> few bytes of code space, but I'm less excited about that now.
>
IMO, I think that "char *msg" is unnecessary, isn't it?

+ if (!PQExpBufferBroken(errorMessage))
+ res->errMsg = pqResultStrdup(res, errorMessage->data);
  else
- res->errMsg = NULL;
+ res->errMsg = libpq_gettext("out of memory\n");


>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
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