Re: Catching resource leaks during WAL replay

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Catching resource leaks during WAL replay
Date: 2013-03-27 23:01:25
Message-ID: 8316.1364425285@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 27 March 2013 20:40, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
>> While looking at bug #7969, it occurred to me that it would be nice if we
>> could catch resource leaks in WAL redo routines better. It would be useful
>> during development, to catch bugs earlier, and it could've turned that
>> replay-stopping error into a warning.

> I'm inclined to think that the overhead isn't worth the trouble. This
> is the only bug of its type we had in recent years.

I agree that checking for resource leaks after each WAL record seems
too expensive compared to what we'd get for it. But perhaps it's worth
making a check every so often, like at restartpoints?

regards, tom lane

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