Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
I thought I'd like to report that right now the Coverity reports are looking good. There are no issues detected in either the backend code or the ECPG library. For the latter I'd like the thank Joachim Wieland and Michael Meskes for getting ECPG into shape. Whats basically left is a large number of memory leaks in frontend applications such as pg_dump, initdb, pg_ctl, etc. These haven't ever really been a priority (buildACLCommands is really bad in this respect). Some examples can be found here: http://svana.org/kleptog/temp/pgsql-bin.xml If someone wants to make a serious attempt at tackling them, I can provide an updated list.
At least in the case of initdb, when I was coding it I was perfectly well aware that there would be memory leaks - and the code contains a comment to the effect that cleaning them up isn't worth the trouble.
I think we can be more liberal in programs that are not long-lived and won't continue to leak more and more memory.
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