Re: Avoid memory leaks during base backups

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:09 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here's what I think - for backup functions, we
> can have the new memory context child of TopMemoryContext and for
> perform_base_backup(), we can have the memory context child of
> CurrentMemoryContext. With PG_TRY()-PG_FINALLY()-PG_END_TRY(), we can
> delete those memory contexts upon ERRORs. This approach works for us
> since backup-related code doesn't have any FATALs.
>
> Thoughts?

I'm attaching the v2 patch designed as described above. Please review it.

I've added an entry in CF - https://commitfest.postgresql.org/40/3915/

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Bharath Rupireddy
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