Re: Memory leaks in BufFileOpenShared()

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
To: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-06-15T08:54:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:42 PM, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:
> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
>
>> The changes were made by this commit to add infrastructure for sharing
>> temporary files between backends, according to the author (Thomas
>> Munro).
>>
>> https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/dc6c4c9dc2a111519b76b22daaaac86c5608223b
>>
>> Your proposal looks reasonable but I would like to hear from Thomas's
>> opinion as well.
>
> o.k. He can actually have different feeling about details, e.g. if a new
> function makeBufFileCommon() should be introduced or if makeBufFile() should
> do the common settings. In the latter case, BufFileCreateTemp() would have to
> do more work than it does now.

Thanks for finding these accidental duplications, and to Ishii-san for
committing the fix.  Oops.

+1 for this refactoring.

-- 
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com


Commits

  1. Fix memory leak in BufFileCreateShared().

  2. Fix memory leak.

  3. Add infrastructure for sharing temporary files between backends.