Re: valgrind a background worker

=?UTF-8?Q?Jon_Erdman?= <jon@thewickedtribe.net> writes:
> I've got a background worker that has a slow memory leak in it 
> somewhere. How can I get it to start under valgrind to get a memcheck 
> output from it?

You have to valgrind the whole cluster AFAIK.  Basically, start
the postmaster under valgrind with --trace-children=yes.
For leak tracking you probably also want
--leak-check=full --track-origins=yes --read-var-info=yes

            regards, tom lane