pgsql: Ensure that any memory leaked during an error inside the bgwriter

From: tgl(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Ensure that any memory leaked during an error inside the bgwriter
Date: 2005-09-12 22:20:30
Message-ID: 20050912222030.19777D8C7B@svr1.postgresql.org
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Ensure that any memory leaked during an error inside the bgwriter is
recovered. I did not see any actual leak while testing this in CVS tip,
but 8.0 definitely has a problem with leaking the space temporarily
palloc'd by BufferSync(). In any case this seems a good idea to forestall
similar problems in future. Per report from Arjen van der Meijden.

Tags:
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REL8_0_STABLE

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/postmaster:
bgwriter.c (r1.13.4.1 -> r1.13.4.2)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c.diff?r1=1.13.4.1&r2=1.13.4.2)

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