Tom, happier with the attached patch?

I'd have to disagree with regards to the memory leaks not being worth
a mention - any such leak can cause problems when the PostgreSQL
installation is either unattended, long-living andor has very high
connection levels. Half a kilobyte on start-up isn't negligible in
this light.

Regards, Lee.

Tom Lane writes:
 > Lee Kindness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 > > Guys, attached is a patch to fix two memory leaks on start-up.
 > 
 > I do not like the changes to miscinit.c.  In the first place, it is not
 > a "memory leak" to do a one-time allocation of state for a proc_exit
 > function.  A bigger complaint is that your proposed change introduces
 > fragile coupling between CreateLockFile and its callers, in order to
 > save no resources worth mentioning.  More, it introduces an assumption
 > that the globals directoryLockFile and socketLockFile don't change while
 > the postmaster is running.  UnlinkLockFile should unlink the file that
 > it was originally told to unlink, regardless of what happens to those
 > globals.
 > 
 > If you are intent on spending code to free stuff just before the
 > postmaster exits, a better fix would be for UnlinkLockFile to free its
 > string argument after using it.

Index: src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.157
diff -u -r1.157 pqcomm.c
--- src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c  12 Jun 2003 07:36:51 -0000      1.157
+++ src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c  22 Jul 2003 14:16:46 -0000
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@
                added++;
        }
 
-       freeaddrinfo(addrs);
+       freeaddrinfo2(family, addrs);
 
        if (!added)
        {
Index: src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c,v
retrieving revision 1.104
diff -u -r1.104 miscinit.c
--- src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c   27 Jun 2003 19:08:37 -0000      1.104
+++ src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c   22 Jul 2003 14:16:46 -0000
@@ -673,8 +673,15 @@
 static void
 UnlinkLockFile(int status, Datum filename)
 {
-       unlink((char *) DatumGetPointer(filename));
-       /* Should we complain if the unlink fails? */
+  char *fname = (char *)DatumGetPointer(filename);
+  if( fname != NULL )
+    {
+      if( unlink(fname) != 0 )
+       {
+         /* Should we complain if the unlink fails? */
+       }
+      free(fname);
+    }
 }
 
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