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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: duspensky@ya.ru
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #16160: Minor memory leak in case of starting postgres server with SSL encryption
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:32:21 -0400
Message-ID: <20210321143221.GD20766@tamriel.snowman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210320000732.zaq227u5spnhwytr@alap3.anarazel.de>
References: <16160-18367e56e9a28264@postgresql.org>
	<20191213063915.GE1942@paquier.xyz>
	<20191214092456.GB70616@paquier.xyz>
	<CAGECzQTucR20CLwb6mw_JLdVST8GqYNqYr1OmAnNS2Byg8r+dg@mail.gmail.com>
	<20210316184455.GB20766@tamriel.snowman.net>
	<20210320000732.zaq227u5spnhwytr@alap3.anarazel.de>

Greetings,

* Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> On 2021-03-16 14:44:55 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > OOMs errors should be gracefully handled and PG should continue to
> > function.  Was that not the case..?
> 
> Depends on what you mean with graceful. Unless you restart the database
> you'll eventually not be able to do anything anymore, since even the
> smallest memory allocation will fail?

Bit confused- I certainly agree with fixing the leak and back-patching
it, not sure how it came across otherwise.  I was asking the questions
that I was to try to figure out if there was some other issue at play as
well.

Thanks,

Stephen

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