Re: memory leaks fixed?

From: Denis Perchine <dyp(at)perchine(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: memory leaks fixed?
Date: 2001-04-08 07:13:17
Message-ID: 200104080714.OAA04467@gw.ac-sw.com
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Hello,

> Just finished reading all of the comments at
>
> http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html
>
> and became concerned about the comments regarding severe memory leaks with
> PostgreSQL. Is this true? Have they been fixed? Are there any
> workarounds?

There are some still. Although not that large as mentioned in the comments.
If you have long-running cursor, and tables involved in this cursor are
heavily updated, you will end with 200Mb postmaster in 1-2 days.

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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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