Re: [HACKERS] Temp Table Memory Leak - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Temp Table Memory Leak
Date
Msg-id 200001170615.BAA13242@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Temp Table Memory Leak  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> I confirm the leak in 6.5.* --- but I see no leak in current sources.
> 
> > Great.  Now the big question is should we backpatch, and if so do we
> > want a 6.5.4.
> 
> Do you have a low-risk patch for this?  I recall that we did some
> fairly extensive changes involving not only temp tables but the regular
> relation cache.  Extracting a patch that could be trusted seems like
> it might be tough.

I remember now.  That entire code is changed to do the replacement
before getting to actual cache.

> 
> > I know you(Tom) have put a number of patches into the 6.5.* branch,
> > and we are at least 2 months away from our next release.
> 
> I have been throwing low-risk/high-reward fixes into REL6_5 when I
> could, with the thought that we might want to do another 6.5.* release.
> But I'm undecided on whether we should or not.  It seems like we are
> close enough to 7.0 beta cycle that we should focus our effort there.
> 

Seems we can not fix this in 6.5.* without the risk of more bugs.  I
agree on focusing on 7.0.

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