Re: Warning on contrib/tsearch2

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Warning on contrib/tsearch2
Date: 2007-03-29 16:11:50
Message-ID: 460BE546.70304@sigaev.ru
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> code: random backend code should not, not, not be using fopen()
> directly. If you lose control to an elog, which is certainly possible
> seeing that this loop calls into the utils/mb subsystem, you'll leak
> the file descriptor. Use AllocateFile/FreeFile instead of fopen/fclose.
Will soon in tsearch_core patch

>
> I find the direct use of malloc/realloc/strdup to be poor style as well
> --- backend code that is not using palloc needs to have *very* good
> reason to do so, and I see none here.

Already in tsearch_core patch.

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