Re: Memory-leak in BackgroundWriter(and Checkpointer)

* Naoya Anzai (anzai-naoya@mxu.nes.nec.co.jp) wrote:
> I've found a memory-leak bug in PostgreSQL 9.1.9's background=20
> writer process.

This looks legit, but probably not the right approach to fixing it.
Looks like it'd be better to work out a way to use a static variable to
reuse the same memory, ala what GetRunningTransactionData() does, and
avoid having to do allocation while holding all the locks (or at least,
not very often).

    Thanks,

        Stephen