Re: [HACKERS] Getting rid of "unknown error" in dblink and postgres_fdw - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Getting rid of "unknown error" in dblink and postgres_fdw
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In response to [HACKERS] Getting rid of "unknown error" in dblink and postgres_fdw  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Getting rid of "unknown error" in dblink and postgres_fdw
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
A possible objection is that if we really are on the hairy edge of OOM,
trying to construct such error strings might push us over the edge

What am I missing here?  Constructing said string occurs on the local end of the connection but the memory problem exists on the remote end.

David J.

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