> Hi again...
>
> I've discovered (or perhaps re-discovered) what seems to be a memory leak
> involving temp tables. It's so bad that I make a script (which runs as a
> daemon) close the backend connection and reconnect each time it runs the
> offending command sequences. Without the reset I've seen the backend grow
> to over 100 megs in size in a matter of a couple of minutes.
>
> I've created a sample case that reproduces the error that I will attach
> with this message. Basically, I create a 50 column temp table (with no
> rows in it) and then run updates on each column in succession. The
> backend gets large pretty quick - I'm seeing about 12Megs after running
> the enclosed script which does an update on all 50 columns 3 times (150
> updates).
Is this with 6.5.* or 7.0. If it is 6.5.*, can you try it with our
current tree for testing purposes. I think you will find it is fixed.
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