Memory Leak Utility

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Shawn wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> i believe I may have found a memory leak in the psql app under
> PostgreSQL 8.2.4 that was not there in 8.2.3.   But I'd like to be a
> bit more certain of my facts.  Is there a utility available to look at
> memory usage and perhaps ways to free up memory in a leak type
> situation, short of a reboot of course?
>
> Slackware 11.0 with updates.  Postgres compiled from source.

valgrind?

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