Re: Memory leak with XLogFileCopy since de768844 (WAL file with .partial) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Memory leak with XLogFileCopy since de768844 (WAL file with .partial)
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Msg-id CAB7nPqT4Y32Z7AOLrvMhRpd=B4B2D++TOLji82kvNi2pmjYhpA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Memory leak with XLogFileCopy since de768844 (WAL file with .partial)  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
Responses Re: Memory leak with XLogFileCopy since de768844 (WAL file with .partial)
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I'm still not sure if I should've just reverted that refactoring, to make
> XLogFileCopy() look the same in master and back-branches, which makes
> back-patching easier, or keep the refactoring, because it makes the code
> slightly nicer. But the current situation is the worst of both worlds: the
> interface of XLogFileCopy() is no better than it used to be, but it's
> different enough to cause merge conflicts. At this point, it's probably best
> to revert the code to look the same as in 9.4.

That's a valid concern. What about the attached then? I think that it
is still good to keep upto to copy only data up to the switch point at
recovery exit. InstallXLogFileSegment() changes a bit as well because
of its modifications of arguments.
--
Michael

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