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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid
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Msg-id 666.1256224412@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid  (Michael Nacos <m.nacos@gmail.com>)
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Michael Nacos <m.nacos@gmail.com> writes:
> I have just run some tests, the number of lost bytes is always 292, no
> matter how many connections are opened and closed.
> I guess it's ok, then.

Yeah.  I suspect the memory is in fact not "leaked", but valgrind is
somehow missing the link that points to it.  You'd have to dig into
the glibc sources to find out for sure though.

            regards, tom lane

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