Here is a patch for a memory leak in rtree.c, version 7.2.1 (in code

that I submitted last year, alas).

Kenneth Been

diff --git a/src/backend/access/rtree/rtree.c b/src/backend/access/rtree/rtree.c
index cec6614a9a1fa33d8e034744ae838270a3a5ef7e..3cb16bba91756e9f86b898b85a91300bbddbe080 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/rtree/rtree.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/rtree/rtree.c
@@ -931,6 +931,8 @@ rtpicksplit(Relation r,
                                                  PointerGetDatum(&size_alpha));
                        FunctionCall2(&rtstate->sizeFn, union_dr,
                                                  PointerGetDatum(&size_beta));
+                       pfree(DatumGetPointer(union_dl));
+                       pfree(DatumGetPointer(union_dr));
 
                        diff = (size_alpha - size_l) - (size_beta - size_r);