[postgis-devel] Memory in the Meantime

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Thu Jan 8 02:35:08 PST 2009


Paul Ramsey wrote:

> I've looked, it's really not a big deal, I'm happy to do it, and I
> want to, since the memory implications for the loader are *massive*
> (fixing the loader requires more than just adding one line, it
> requires a replacement for lwfree_poly which actually does the deep
> free... so, 8 lines :) But still feels wrong to be building what
> should be library infrastructure into the loader.

*shrug* sure. Well, saves me doing the work anyway ;)

> I'm going ahead with it, it will allow me to finish up the GUI. Which,
> BTW, feels like a step backwards in code attractiveness, since I
> didn't re-write the core code in the end, just retrofitted the output
> handling.

Okay. My only request is that initially can the GUI have a separate 
target in the Makefile? Otherwise I can see this causing issues on 
commit with the automated build, Win32 etc...


ATB,

Mark.

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