Re: possible connection leak in dblink?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: possible connection leak in dblink?
Date: 2011-06-17 19:21:01
Message-ID: 1308338461.16852.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On ons, 2011-06-15 at 11:41 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> ISTM that the root problem is that dblink_send_query calls DBLINK_GET_CONN
> though it doesn't accept the connection string as an argument. Since the first
> argument in dblink_send_query must be the connection name, dblink_send_query
> should call DBLINK_GET_NAMED_CONN instead. The variable 'freeconn' is used
> only when DBLINK_GET_CONN is called. So, if dblink_send_query uses
> DBLINK_GET_NAMED_CONN instead, the variable 'freeconn' is no longer necessary.
>
> The similar problem exists in dblink_get_result and dblink_record_internal.
> Attached patch fixes those problems.

Is this a bug fix that should be backpatched?

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