Re: pl/python tracebacks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Urbański
Subject Re: pl/python tracebacks
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Msg-id 4D564DBD.4070108@wulczer.org
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In response to Re: pl/python tracebacks  (Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pl/python tracebacks  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On 12/02/11 10:00, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 01:50, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org> wrote:
>> On 12/02/11 04:12, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
>>> In PLy_traceback fname and prname look like they will leak (well as
>>> much as a palloc() in an error path can leak I suppose).
>>
>> But they're no palloc'd, no? fname is either a static "<module"> string,
>> or PyString_AsString, which also doesn't allocate memory, AFAIK.
> 
> Yeah, I was flat out wrong about proname :-(.
> 
> As for fname, I must be missing some magic. We have:
> 
> #if PY_MAJOR_VERSION > 3
> ...
> #define PyString_AsString(x) PLyUnicode_AsString(x)
> ....
> PLyUnicode_AsString(PyObject *unicode)
> {
>     PyObject   *o = PLyUnicode_Bytes(unicode);
>     char       *rv = pstrdup(PyBytes_AsString(o));
> 
>     Py_XDECREF(o);
>     return rv;
> }
> 
> PyString_AsString is used all over the place without any pfrees. But I
> have no Idea how that pstrdup() is getting freed if at all.
> 
> Care to enlighten me ?

Ooops, seems that this hack that's meant to improve compatibility with
Python3 makes it leak. I wonder is the pstrdup is necessary here, but
OTOH the leak should not be overly significant, given that no-one
complained about it before... and PyString_AsString is being used in
several other places.

Jan


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