Re: memory bug debugging

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:11:41PM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Hello hackers,
>
> I'm fiddling around with the backend and have created a memory bug. I
> guess I'm overriding a palloced chunk, but can't figure out where.

There are some defines (MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING and
CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY) which can help find leaks. Valgrind works too,
with a bit of attention. I was going to add some directives to allow
Valgrind to handle PostgreSQL's memory allocator, but have got there
yet.

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