Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
> MWendt wrote:
>> 2) the client will connect to these DB server and is running correctly in a
>> timeout. the problem is: for each connection attempt that will fail the
>> memory usage is growing. that will result in massive memory allocation, if
>> the client try to reconnect in high frequency.
> Is there any chance you can supply the source code of a self-contained,
> compileable test case (example program) that can demonstrate this? Your
> description doesn't exclude the possibility of leaks occurring as a
> consequence of failure to free resources in the program using libpq.
In particular I wonder whether the application is neglecting to call
PQfinish() on the failed connection objects ...
regards, tom lane