Memory leaks for large objects

From: "Maurice Gittens" <mgittens(at)gits(dot)nl>
To: "PostgreSQL-development" <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Memory leaks for large objects
Date: 1998-02-16 15:54:05
Message-ID: 00f901bd3af3$1bdd6500$fcf3b2c2@caleb..gits.nl
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Ok,

I think large objects are leaking memory because the large object functions
in the backend use their own GlobalMemoryContext (called Filesystem), which
(according to a quick grep) is never freed.

Supposing this is true and I ensure that the large object subsystem always
uses the current memory context for it's memory allocations.

What might go wrong? (Or why did the designers decide to use a
GlobalMemoryContext for large objects?).

I simple don't understand why one would create a special memory context
for large objects without some special reason.
Or should I just try it and see is anything breaks?

Thanks for any comments.
Maurice

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