Re: invalid memory alloc request size from pg_stat_activity?

Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>

From: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
To: James Tomson <james@pushd.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org, Eric Jensen <ej@pushd.com>
Date: 2019-05-07T13:37:41Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Em seg, 6 de mai de 2019 às 20:04, James Tomson <james@pushd.com> escreveu:
>
> ourdb=> SELECT pid, state, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, query FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND state != 'idle' ORDER BY age limit 100;
> ERROR:  invalid memory alloc request size 1652113408
>
That is because it is limited to 1GB - 1.

> Maybe this has to do with us setting track_activity_query_size=102400? Is there a known safe maximum for that, or could there be some other problem?
>
Question is: why do you want to return such a big query text? That's
impractical for admin/monitoring tools. We can usually identify a
query with 1024 bytes (that is the default).


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Commits

  1. Avoid "invalid memory alloc request size" while reading pg_stat_activity.