RE: [HACKERS] freefuncs.c is never called from anywhere!?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
>
> I was rather bemused to discover just now that the node-freeing
> functions in nodes/freefuncs.c are never called from anywhere;
> in fact, the module hasn't got a single exported entry point!
>
> (I expect that freeObject() is supposed to be an external entry
> point; perhaps it got demoted to a static during one of Bruce's
> periodic get-rid-of-unreferenced-global-symbols passes.)
>
> So much for all that tedious labor to maintain the freeXXX functions
> every time we update a node type ;-)
>

As far as I see,freeObject() has a fundamental problem.
Probably it couldn't free multiple references safely.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp