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Re: CommitFest 2009-09, two weeks on

Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

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From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-10-01T02:00:23Z
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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:

> The patch basically forces all use of libpq by dblink to be asynchronous
> (internally) so that a cancel can be sensed and passed down to the
> remote side and everything cleaned up. Possibly the right thing to do,
> but dblink already allows the use of async queries, and the current
> synchronous method uses standard libpq calls.

The point is *memory leak* in dblink when a query is canceled or
become time-out. I think it is a bug, and my patch could fix it.

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center