Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> I get the same results. The leak arises because AIX freelocale() doesn't free
> all memory allocated in newlocale(). The following program uses trivial
> memory on GNU/Linux, but it leaks like you're seeing on AIX:
Bleah.
> If you have access to file an AIX bug, I recommend doing so. If we want
> PostgreSQL to work around this, one idea is to have ECPG do this newlocale()
> less often. For example, do it once per process or once per connection
> instead of once per ecpg_do_prologue().
It's worse than that: see also ECPGget_desc(). Seems like a case
could be made for doing something about this just on the basis
of cycles expended, never mind freelocale() bugs.
regards, tom lane