Re: plperl doesn't release memory

At 3:14 PM -0500 3/24/05, Tom Lane wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes:
>>  ... I'm pretty sure for embedding use it uses whatever routines
>>  the embedder defines, but it's been a while since I've poked around
>>  in there.
>
>Hmm.  plperl is definitely not doing anything to try to manipulate that
>behavior; maybe it should?  Where can we find out about this?

I'll have to go dig, but this:

>  > Anyway, if perl's using its own memory allocator you'll want to
>>  rebuild it to not do that.
>
>When I tried to test this it seemed that memory did get released at the
>conclusion of each query --- at least "top" showed the backend process
>size dropping back down.  But, again, I wouldn't be surprised if Sven's
>perl installation is configured differently than mine.

...implies perl's doing the Right Thing, otherwise there'd be no
release of memory to the system.
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                Dan

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