Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Pavel Raiskup (praiskup@redhat.com) wrote:
>> - attrdefs = (AttrDefInfo *) pg_malloc(numDefaults * sizeof(AttrDefInfo));
>> ...
>> + attrdefs = (AttrDefInfo *) pg_malloc(numDefaults * sizeof(AttrDefInfo));
> This change doesn't seem to make any sense to me..? If anything, seems
> like we'd end up overallocating memory *after* this change, where we
> don't today (though an analyzer tool might complain because we don't
> free the memory from it and instead copy the pointer from each of these
> items into the tbinfo structure).
Yeah, Coverity is exceedingly not smart about the method pg_dump uses
(in lots of places, not just here) of allocating an array and then
entering pointers to individual array elements into its long-lived
data structures. I concur that the proposed change is giving up a
lot of malloc overhead to silence an invalid complaint, and we
shouldn't do it.
The other two points seem probably valid, so I wonder why our own
Coverity runs haven't noticed them.
regards, tom lane
