On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:52:53AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Well, if Coverity's idea of good programming practice is that every > program must explicitly free everything it ever malloced before it > terminates, then I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree. The
I don't think Coverity even knows how long a program may run. But while I agree that freeing all memory is not needed in a short running program, I still think we should examine those reports because they may show some real bugs. At least this is what happened to some degree in ecpg. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
