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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: free(3)-ing variables in pg_dump
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Msg-id 17136.1064330523@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to free(3)-ing variables in pg_dump  (Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>)
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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no> writes:
> Shall I bother to free(3) them?

No.  They need to live for the entire pg_dump run, so there's no point
in writing code to free them.
        regards, tom lane

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