Re: [HACKERS] WAL: O_DIRECT and multipage-writer (+ memory

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> BTW, I found memory leak in BootStrapXLOG(). The buffer allocated by malloc()
> >> is not free()ed. ISSUE_BOOTSTRAP_MEMORYLEAK in this patch points out it.
> >> (But this leak is not serious, because this function is called only once.)
>
> > Does the following patch fix the memory leak you described?
>
> You realize this is a waste of code, no?  It's not like the bootstrap
> subprocess frees every single bit of memory it ever allocates, and even
> less like it'd be profitable to try to make it do so ... the memory
> will go away anyway when the subprocess exits.

I guess, but the person reported a leak so I figured I would fix it.

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