Re: [HACKERS] index leaks ?

2004-03-12 Thread Tom Lane
strk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The size growth is reported by 'top' in the fields > SIZE, RSS and SHARE. > Can it be a memory leak in postgres code ? No, you are misinterpreting the 'top' output. You didn't say what platform you are on, but on some systems 'top' increases the reported size of

[HACKERS] index leaks ?

2004-03-12 Thread strk
Hello, I'm watching a strange beahviour by postgres, I wonder if it's a memory leak: Creating an index and destroying it makes the postgres process grow in size. This is what I do: create table test (a int); create index test_idx on test (a); drop index test_idx; create index test_idx on test (a)