Re: Is it a memory leak in PostgreSQL 7.4beta?

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, eg(at)cybertec(dot)at
Subject: Re: Is it a memory leak in PostgreSQL 7.4beta?
Date: 2003-09-01 11:00:16
Message-ID: 3F5326C0.3020505@paradise.net.nz
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:

>
> I can hardly imagine that the backend started working with 9mb of
> memory. what did you do that PostgreSQL needed so much memory from the
> beginning??? are you using the default settings? usually the
> postmaster does not need more than 3mb at startup (in this scenario).

Setup is completely default - i.e run initdb, and start the server
after that.
I am running an embedded sql program to do the test, rather than an sql
script
(see enclosed), not sure why/if that would make any difference.

On the cautionary side, note that I am using a beta Linux distribution too.

regards

Mark

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