On 10/10/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Milen A. Radev" <milen@radev.net> writes:
> > On 10/10/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I couldn't duplicate any such leak using your test program here.
>
> > The client and the server were on different machines - that's why I
> > believe "md5" was used. I'm sending only the client machine's
> > pg_config output. Tell me if you need the server's too.
>
> I cannot duplicate a leak using a cross-machine connection with md5
> auth, either. I tested this using Fedora Core 5 and the current FC5
> libpq (postgresql-libs-8.1.4-1.FC5.1 RPM).
>
> I'm wondering if the leak you see is actually the fault of the glibc
> version on your machine.
You're most probably right - I could reproduce this results only with
libc6 2.3.x (Slackware 9.1, Debian stable), but not with version 2.4
(FC5).
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Milen A. Radev
