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From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: pg_ctl infinite loop and memory leak
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Msg-id 1251859088.31412.336.camel@monkey-cat.sm.truviso.com
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In response to Re: pg_ctl infinite loop and memory leak  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 22:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Huh, interesting corner case.  I'd be inclined to fix by initializing
> maxlength to 1 though.
>
> Where's the memory leak?

The xstrdup() on the zero-length string.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis

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