[postgis-devel] && leaks

[strk]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:27:26PM -0800, Dave Blasby wrote:

(cuts)

> You mentioned the compress function as another place it could be leaking.  Its 
> more difficult to tell exactly how its leaking because the line:
> 
> gistentryinit(*retval, PointerGetDatum(r), entry->rel, entry->page,
> 					entry->offset, sizeof(BOX), FALSE);
> 
> 
> hides when the actual BOX (r) gets written to disk and can be pfreed.  I'll 
> have to look and see tomorrow.  
> 
> If you find/suspect any more leaks, let me know.
> 
> dave

After your patch applyed I found the leakage to happen at index
creation time. If you create a gist index, then drop it,
and start again, the postgres proces will growing over and over
in size.

--strk;