Re: Is it a memory leak in PostgreSQL 7.4beta?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs@cybertec.at>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, eg@cybertec.at
Date: 2003-09-10T04:18:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Have we determined there _isn't_ a memory leak problem in beta2?

I am not sure.  I have a suspicion that there is no real leak, but
rather we are seeing some artifact of the way Linux' top(1) reports
memory usage.  I cannot prove that --- I can only offer the evidence
that the exact same PG sources running the exact same queries on a
different OS (HPUX) show no memory leak.  It would be useful to hear
some more reports of the test case from people with other OSes.

			regards, tom lane