Hi,
On 2023-01-03 12:05:20 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> The attached patch adds libpq-be-fe-helpers.h and uses it in libpqwalreceiver,
> dblink, postgres_fdw.
> As I made libpq-be-fe-helpers.h handle reserving external fds,
> libpqwalreceiver now does so. I briefly looked through its users without
> seeing cases of leaking in case of errors - which would already have been bad,
> since we'd already have leaked a libpq connection/socket.
>
>
> Given the lack of field complaints and the size of the required changes, I
> don't think we should backpatch this, even though it's pretty clearly buggy
> as-is.
Any comments on this? Otherwise I think I'll go with this approach.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
