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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: Wojtek Bogusz <Wojtek.Bogusz@fuw.edu.pl>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: buffer leak detected in BufferPoolCheckLeak()
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 94 12:23:26 -0700
Message-ID: <199408041923.MAA04764@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9408031728.AA03084@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>

wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) writes:
> The "buffer leak" notices seem to be caused by an internal problem of
> postgres, not by the user.

yes.  a piece of code is pinning a buffer somewhere and then neglecting
to unpin it again.  the scary notices were added to facilitate debugging.

i thought the define operator one had been fixed.  maybe not.  there is a 
new one lurking in the btree code somewhere..
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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