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Akshat Kumar

Database internals down to the metal: LSM trees, DuckDB, and memory models.

Oct 11

DuckDB PR2 — How a Missing ClearUpdates() Retained StringHeap Allocations

After a week of investigating DuckDB's memory leak, I traced the accumulation to a specific change in checkpoint finalization: the removal of a call to ClearUpdates(). The investigation revealed how a

theshadowbyte.hashnode.dev4 min read

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