Hi Kjell,

I've applied both patches, see revision 1.51. I'll see when we'll have
enough changes to wrap up a new driver release, but I guess you can
live with the CVS version for the time being.

Thanks for reporting the problems, and even more thanks for providing
the patches!

regards,
Markus

Kjell Irgens writes:
 > Hi list,
 > 
 > I found a memory leak in the pgsql driver that is not fixed in CVS.
 > Here is a patch:
 > 
 > --- drivers/pgsql/dbd_pgsql.c.orig      2006-09-20 12:07:39.000000000 +0200
 > +++ drivers/pgsql/dbd_pgsql.c   2006-09-20 12:35:06.000000000 +0200
 > @@ -543,8 +543,10 @@
 > 
 >   int dbd_ping(dbi_conn_t *conn) {
 >          PGconn *pgsql = (PGconn *)conn->connection;
 > +       PGresult *res;
 > 
 > -       PQexec(pgsql, "SELECT 1");
 > +       res = PQexec(pgsql, "SELECT 1");
 > +       if (res) PQclear (res);
 > 
 >          if (PQstatus(pgsql) == CONNECTION_OK) {
 >                  return 1;
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > In addition, it would be nice if you could incorporate the following 
 > patch, as this makes the pgsql driver compatible with the Redhat 9 
 > supplied postgresql 7.3 (yes it is old, but it is still used by NASA for 
 > the project I am working on):
 > 
 > --- drivers/pgsql/dbd_pgsql.c.orig      2006-08-24 09:59:36.000000000 +0200
 > +++ drivers/pgsql/dbd_pgsql.c   2006-08-24 09:59:50.000000000 +0200
 > @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@
 >   long long strtoll(const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base);
 >   #endif
 > 
 > +/* In 7.4 PQfreeNotify was deprecated and PQfreemem is used instead.  A
 > +   macro exists in 7.4 for backwards compatibility. */
 > +#ifndef PQfreeNotify   /* must be earlier than 7.4 */
 > +#define PQfreemem PQfreeNotify
 > +#endif
 > +
 >   #include <stdio.h>
 >   #include <stdlib.h>
 >   #include <string.h>
 > 
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