On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 02:57:20PM +0200, Torsten Förtsch wrote:
> I ran this query in a separate transaction. The memory was freed only
> when the backend process exited.
>
> Is there a way to work around this memory leak?
Why do you think it's a memory leak. You asked for the full dataset;
you need to have the memory to allocate for it. At least, that's what
I'd expect.
> expensive locks. Then I could also use it in production. But currently I
> need it only to verify a backup.
If you need to verify a backup, why isn't pg_dump acceptable? Or is
it that you are somehow trying to prove that what you have on the
target (backup) machine is in fact production-ready? I guess I don't
really understand what you are trying to do.
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