Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
Subject Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid
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Msg-id 2f4958ff0910220804h20be6f28qf693cd3cbd09c3a3@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Michael Nacos <m.nacos@gmail.com> writes:
> just to say I have run into related problems on debian lenny amd64 (postgres
> 8.3.5, libc-2.7) and centos 5.2 (postgres 8.4.1, libc-2.5)

This is not a Postgres bug.  You can try filing it against glibc, but
I wouldn't be too surprised if they tell you it's not worth fixing.

I tried to fight the same battle, and apparently this is by design.
 


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GJ

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