On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:55:09PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > - Memcheck has support for detecting leaks. I have not explored that
> > side at
> > all, always passing --leak-check=no. We could add support for freeing
> > "everything" at process exit, thereby making the leak detection
> > meaningful.
> >
>
> I think this is missing the type of leaks we actually care about. The way
> palloc works we can be virtually certain that if we did that we wouldn't
> have any leaks. All it would detect are the random one-off mallocs we know
> very well are there.
Probably so; it's not too promising.
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Noah Misch
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