On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:55:09PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote: > > - Memcheck has support for detecting leaks. I have not explored that > > side at > > all, always passing --leak-check=no. We could add support for freeing > > "everything" at process exit, thereby making the leak detection > > meaningful. > > > > I think this is missing the type of leaks we actually care about. The way > palloc works we can be virtually certain that if we did that we wouldn't > have any leaks. All it would detect are the random one-off mallocs we know > very well are there.
Probably so; it's not too promising. -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
