Re: Memory leaks in PostgreSQL ODBC driver - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

From Hiroshi Inoue
Subject Re: Memory leaks in PostgreSQL ODBC driver
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Msg-id 3D16EDBA.6DA0F0F0@tpf.co.jp
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In response to Memory leaks in PostgreSQL ODBC driver  (mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>)
List pgsql-odbc
mlw wrote:
>
> mlw wrote:
> >
> > It seems that when you perform a large query against the postgresql ODBC driver
> > it sucks it all in to memory. If the query returns more data than you have
> > memory, it fails. To change this behavior, you set UseDeclareFetch to yes.
> >
> > It seems that in QR_read_tuple, a buffer is allocated but never freed. Has
> > anyone ever seen this before?
> >
> > I traced this in the unixODBC Postgre7.1 driver by replacing free/malloc with
> > debug versions, and it looks like the PostgreSQL version has the same issue.
> >
> > Could this buffer be freed else where?
> >
>
> The Windows odbc driver does this as well, which is not surprising, given that
> it is probably the same code.

Could you try the snapshot dll at http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/ ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
    http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/



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