Re: [HACKERS] Temp Table Memory Leak

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> I confirm the leak in 6.5.* --- but I see no leak in current sources.
> 
> > Great.  Now the big question is should we backpatch, and if so do we
> > want a 6.5.4.
> 
> Do you have a low-risk patch for this?  I recall that we did some
> fairly extensive changes involving not only temp tables but the regular
> relation cache.  Extracting a patch that could be trusted seems like
> it might be tough.
> 
> > I know you(Tom) have put a number of patches into the 6.5.* branch,
> > and we are at least 2 months away from our next release.
> 
> I have been throwing low-risk/high-reward fixes into REL6_5 when I
> could, with the thought that we might want to do another 6.5.* release.
> But I'm undecided on whether we should or not.  It seems like we are
> close enough to 7.0 beta cycle that we should focus our effort there.

past experience tends to be that even when we beta 7.0 on the 1st of Feb,
which I haven't heard anyone suggest changing yet, we're still talking
another month, maybe two, before release...

I think it would be nice to put out a 6.5.4 about the same time as we go
beta ... 

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