"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Nobody responded when I asked about this recently, but shouldn't
> that list include "BUG #5607: memmory leak in ecpg"? We have a
> patch from Zolt�n B�sz�rm�nyi from before this bug report which
> seems to address the issue and which Michael Meskes said "Feel free
> to apply".
> We don't want to ship 9.0 with known memory leaks, do we?
Better a memory leak than broken ecpg ;-). Nobody except Michael
is terribly comfortable with that code, so we'd all rather wait for
him to review and apply the patch.
More generally, pre-existing bugs have never been considered release
stoppers. At this point what we would block the release for is *new*
bugs in 9.0. (An exception to that general rule is pre-existing bugs
that would require an initdb to fix; but this one isn't that either.)
regards, tom lane
