Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> Note this is your in application, not the server. Only your program
> died. Ofcourse the transaction got aborted, since the client (you)
> disconnected. There is no way for this to write to the server log,
> since it may be one another machine...

Right. And note that if we don't have enough memory for the struct
that was requested, we *certainly* don't have enough to do anything
interesting. We could try

fprintf(stderr, "out of memory\n");
exit(1);

but even that I would give only about 50-50 odds of success; and more
to the point, how is this any better for an application than a core
dump? It's still summary termination.

> Do you create and destroy a lot of threads since it seems this memory
> won't be freed?

The OP's program isn't threaded at all, since he was apparently running
with a non-threaded ecpg/libpq before. This means that the proposal of
looping till someone else frees memory is at least as silly as allowing
the core dump to happen.

regards, tom lane

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