Hi all,

I now know it's somewhat an "academic exercise" of little practical
importance, thanks for the clarification!!

Cheers,
Antonio

2011/9/2 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Craig Ringer <ring...@ringerc.id.au> writes:
>> Even better, add a valgrind suppressions file for the warnings and
>> ignore them. They are "leaks" only in the sense that a static variable
>> is a leak, ie not at all.
>
> Yeah, the bottom line here is that valgrind will warn about many things
> that are not genuine problems.  You need to learn how to judge the tool's
> reports.  A single allocation that is still reachable at program exit is
> almost never a real problem.  If it's unreachable, or there's a lot of
> instances, it may be worth worrying about.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>

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