[PATCH] Silence a new Valgrind warning

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)tigerdata(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: [PATCH] Silence a new Valgrind warning
Date: 2026-03-12 12:56:26
Message-ID: CAJ7c6TN3Hbb5p=UHx0SPVN+h_JwPAV6rxoqOm7gHBMFKfnGK-Q@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

Commit 4966bd3ed95e revealed a non-critical memory leak in
ProcessStartupPacket() which Valgrind is very much upset about:

```
63 (32 direct, 31 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in
loss record 355 of 800
at 0x9D260C: palloc (mcxt.c:1411)
by 0x54B3D2: new_list (list.c:137)
by 0x54B8CC: lappend (list.c:344)
by 0x78B41A: ProcessStartupPacket (backend_startup.c:786)
by 0x78A411: BackendInitialize (backend_startup.c:295)
by 0x789F2F: BackendMain (backend_startup.c:110)
by 0x67EEED: postmaster_child_launch (launch_backend.c:268)
by 0x685D50: BackendStartup (postmaster.c:3606)
by 0x6830CF: ServerLoop (postmaster.c:1713)
by 0x682982: PostmasterMain (postmaster.c:1403)
by 0x547DFE: main (main.c:231)
```

The proposed patch silences the warnings.

--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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v1-0001-Free-memory-allocated-for-unrecognized_protocol_o.patch text/x-patch 1.2 KB

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