On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:11:41PM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hello hackers, > > I'm fiddling around with the backend and have created a memory bug. I > guess I'm overriding a palloced chunk, but can't figure out where.
There are some defines (MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING and CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY) which can help find leaks. Valgrind works too, with a bit of attention. I was going to add some directives to allow Valgrind to handle PostgreSQL's memory allocator, but have got there yet. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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