Re: [HACKERS] 6.1 progress

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > > It is amazing how much talent has been focused in just the past 24 hours
> > > > on PostgreSQL.  Amazing.
> > > >
> > > > I am excited about the memory fixes and the cleanup going on.
> > > >
> > > > I hope Marc is going to give us the time to complete these fixes and
> > > > post-fix testing before a 6.1 final release.
> > >
> > >         Geez, sooooo much weight on my shoulders *grin*
> > >
> > >         Might I venture to propose an additional week? *grin*
> >
> > What! Once again! What are the opened issues ?
>
> Really none, but Igor is tracking down the memory leak problems people
> have reported, and I was not sure he would finish in time, and even if
> he did, we would not have enough time to test it.
>
> Do you have another recommendation?

Igor wrote:
>
> Oh the pressure :)...Anyways, PSQL has a huge leak (90% reported by
> Purify, whatever that means :) ) in reading in external sql files (through
> -f option)...this might be contributing to recent reports of memory leaks
> during regression tests (aside from the backend which is another issue)...
>
> I am working on it right now, but I don't think PSQL issue is important
> enough to delay the release....if everything checks out allright by Friday
> then we should release it...Then starting with 6.2 make sure we eliminate
> as many memory problems as possible....

Agreed.

Vadim

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