Re: BUG #16160: Minor memory leak in case of starting postgres server with SSL encryption

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, duspensky(at)ya(dot)ru, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #16160: Minor memory leak in case of starting postgres server with SSL encryption
Date: 2021-03-21 14:32:21
Message-ID: 20210321143221.GD20766@tamriel.snowman.net
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Greetings,

* Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
> On 2021-03-16 14:44:55 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > OOMs errors should be gracefully handled and PG should continue to
> > function. Was that not the case..?
>
> Depends on what you mean with graceful. Unless you restart the database
> you'll eventually not be able to do anything anymore, since even the
> smallest memory allocation will fail?

Bit confused- I certainly agree with fixing the leak and back-patching
it, not sure how it came across otherwise. I was asking the questions
that I was to try to figure out if there was some other issue at play as
well.

Thanks,

Stephen

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