Re: [HACKERS] Memory leaks for large objects
От | Peter T Mount |
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Тема | Re: [HACKERS] Memory leaks for large objects |
Дата | |
Msg-id | Pine.LNX.3.95.980217210554.14185A-100000@maidast обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Memory leaks for large objects ("Maurice Gittens" <mgittens@gits.nl>) |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Maurice Gittens wrote: > Ok, > > I think large objects are leaking memory because the large object functions > in the backend use their own GlobalMemoryContext (called Filesystem), which > (according to a quick grep) is never freed. > > Supposing this is true and I ensure that the large object subsystem always > uses the current memory context for it's memory allocations. > > What might go wrong? (Or why did the designers decide to use a > GlobalMemoryContext for large objects?). > > I simple don't understand why one would create a special memory context > for large objects without some special reason. > Or should I just try it and see is anything breaks? I was wondering the same thing when I was looking at that part of the code a couple of months back. It would be interesting to see if anything did break. -- Peter T Mount petermount@earthling.net or pmount@maidast.demon.co.uk Main Homepage: http://www.demon.co.uk/finder Work Homepage: http://www.maidstone.gov.uk Work EMail: peter@maidstone.gov.uk
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