On 5/15/08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Eg. how does src/backend/parser/gram.c not leak memory on syntax error?
>
> It's not a leak because the memory can be re-used during the next
> command.
I may be blind, but I don't see any static variables there.
> I believe you'll find that trying to make it use palloc is a failure
> because it keeps static pointers that it expects will stay valid across
> calls.
Thats true, I need to drop the redefines if the allocations may be reused.
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marko