Re: [CHECKER] 4 memory leaks in Postgresql 7.4.2

Thank you for the confirmation.

Best,
Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Meskes [mailto:meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org]
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:55 AM
To: Tom Lane
Cc: Neil Conway; Ted Kremenek; pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org; Michael Meskes
Subject: Re: [BUGS] [CHECKER] 4 memory leaks in Postgresql 7.4.2

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:50:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> [BUG] memory leak on error path (dtype != DTK_DELTA)
> >> File where bug occurred:
> >> postgresql-7.4.2/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/interval.c
>
> > Looks suspicious to me, but ECPG is Michael Meskes' domain -- Michael?
>
> It's entirely likely that ecpg's derivative of the backend's datetime
> modules contains lots and lots of memory leaks, since AFAIK the palloc
> infrastructure is not there in the ecpg environment :-(.

This is true of course. But I'm hopeful we found most of the possible
leaks. This one certainly was not found.

Fix just committed.

Michael
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