Re: Improve OOM handling in pg_locale.c

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Mithun Cy <mithun(dot)cy(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Improve OOM handling in pg_locale.c
Date: 2016-11-21 23:32:41
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSdivXv2Vt_8C8Gz8=7fDBvFQtEw_1uyXsJSafnik4Jyw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I could have lived with leaving the leak there, but really this wasn't
> fixing the worst problem with the code: if it did throw an error out of
> the middle of that sequence, it would leave the process setlocale'd to
> some other locale than we want. That could lead to unwanted behavior
> in printf and other functions. And this isn't all that unlikely: an
> encoding conversion failure is definitely possible if you have a locale
> selected that's not compatible with the database encoding.
>
> I whacked the patch around enough so that we didn't do anything except
> libc calls between setting and restoring the locale. At that point it
> was just a matter of adding a TRY block to be able to say that we
> didn't leak any strdup'd strings, so I figured "might as well".
>
> Pushed with those changes.

Thanks. The changes you have done look good to me at short sight.
--
Michael

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