Re: [HACKERS] Everything leaks; How it mm suppose to work?

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> 
> >
> >Running postgresql in interactive mode shows that for each query I 
> >type there is memory lost. The exact amount of memory lost depends on
> >the query I use. The amount of memory not freed is also a function
> >of the number of tuples returned.
> >
>  
> Oops, it seems some palloced memory is not freed by pfree but
> using some other function(s).
> My mistake, sorry.
> 

One thing I have found is that:

	select * from test where 1=0;

do not leak memory while

	select * from test where x=-999;

does leak memory, even though neither returns any rows.  Strange.  Would
seem to point to the optimizer or executor.

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