Thread: finding memory leaks in extensions

Hello,

I'm trying to detect memory leaks in an external postgres extensions.
Since SIZE of postgres process keeps growing between function calls,
does this mean there are memory leaks in the extenal packages or
it might be the postgres itself keeping allocated memory as a buffer
for later use ? To note also that the same identical calls keeps
making SIZE grow ...

PS: I'm working with postgres-7.3.2

TIA
--strk;

On Monday 29 September 2003 15:35, strk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to detect memory leaks in an external postgres extensions.
> Since SIZE of postgres process keeps growing between function calls,
> does this mean there are memory leaks in the extenal packages or
> it might be the postgres itself keeping allocated memory as a buffer
> for later use ? To note also that the same identical calls keeps
> making SIZE grow ...

Use valgrind. It's an excellent tool. It takes a huge performance hit but can
detect very steakthy bugs.

 Shridhar