Re: [HACKERS] 6.1 issues resolved

>
> I ran purify yesterday on psql, and it found several memory leaks in
> libpq. I fixed a couple of them and will post a patch in a couple of
> hours. Unfortunately I only have a signle terminal window for now so I
> can't work on the backend but libpq is significant too..BTW: There is a
> bug right now in psql:
>     run psql.
>     do \m to turn on monitor style output.
>     select *  from some table...You should see (NULL) instead of
>     the row separator....
>
> I fixed it too and will send a patch for it together with memory leak
> patch (they are actually related)...

That's great.  Glad you can help out.  psql/libpq are certainly
important to Purify.

The backend Purify is going to be ugly, I would guess, because it is so
big.  Those memory issues are hard to find, and most of use don't have
Purify to help.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

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