"Alvaro Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > But the problem (or at last a part of the problem) is not what context > each chunk is allocated in, but where did a given chunk come from (where > was it allocated), Which is why saving __FILE__/__LINE__ is useful. >
Agreed. Maybe we should not clutter these trace info in the AllocChunkData. We save them in a separe memory context which is only activated when TRACE_MEMORY is on. Also, recording every __FILE__/__LINE__ seems not neccessary, we merge them and record the count of calls. Once a leak is happened, the usual suspect is the high-count one. So the output of memory context dump will be looks like this: execQual.c 1953 123456 execHash.c 208 12 ... > > #ifdef TRACE_MEMORY > #define lappend(_list_, _elt_) \ > lappend_tracemem(_list_, _elt_, __FILE__, __LINE__) > #endif > This might be the only portable way I could think of. We don't want to redefine all of the functions calling palloc()/MemoryContextAlloc(), we redefine the most suspectable ones like those in heaptuple.c. Regards, Qingqing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match