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Commit 80cadb30 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Prevent sorting from requesting a SortTuple array that exceeds MaxAllocSize;

we'll go over to disk-based sort if we reach that limit.
This fixes Stefan Kaltenbrunner's observation that sorting can suffer an
'invalid memory alloc request size' failure when sort_mem is set large
enough.  It's unfortunately not so easy to fix in 8.1 ...
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