Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM Ranier Vilela <ranier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Coverity reports this resource leak in test_binaryheap module.
>> I think that is right.
> If this were correct, we'd need to also free the memory in all the
> error paths. But of course, in both error and non-error paths, we rely
> on memory context cleanup to free memory for us, except in cases where
> there's some specific reason to believe that's not good enough. I
> doubt that there is any such reason in this case.
I agree this isn't interesting from a resource-leak perspective.
However, is it interesting from a test-coverage perspective?
AFAICS, test_binaryheap doesn't presently exercise binaryheap_free,
which seems a little sad for what's supposed to be a unit-test
module.
Of course, binaryheap_free is quite trivial and we do already
have coverage of it elsewhere. So I'm not super excited about
the omission.
regards, tom lane
