From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Nishad Prakash <prakashn@uci.edu>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak in lobj example code
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:04:58 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200101200004.TAA19584@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010161040490.14746-100000@e4e.oac.uci.edu>
Thanks. I have fixed this. It will appear in 7.1, and in the docs
tomorrow.
>
> In the Programmer's Guide, the sample code for accessing large objects
> from libpq has two functions with memory leaks.
>
> The functions pickout() and overwrite() malloc space for buf which is
> never freed.
>
> See
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/programmer/largeobjects3207.htm
>
> This problem is also in the 6.5 docs at
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/6.5/programmer/x3184.htm
>
>
> Nishad
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