Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1u8nAu-00BgZ3-4j for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:35:04 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1u8nAr-006zXE-96 for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:35:02 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1u8nAq-006zX5-Tz for pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:35:01 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([68.162.161.243]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1u8nAp-0027Lv-1a for pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:35:00 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 53QLYv3w132173; Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:34:57 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Igor Korot cc: Laurenz Albe , "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" Subject: Re: How to properly fix memory leak In-reply-to: References: <0a2be546e57d6088acf734f8d6a308a984e7171b.camel@cybertec.at> Comments: In-reply-to Igor Korot message dated "Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:53:58 -0500" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <132171.1745703297.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:34:57 -0400 Message-ID: <132172.1745703297@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Igor Korot writes: >>>> auto temp1 = m_pimpl->m_myconv.from_bytes( PQgetvalue( >>>> res, i, 1 ) ); >>>> m_tablespaces.push_back( temp1 ); I would imagine that from_bytes() is producing a malloc'd string. Which part of this is responsible for seeing that that gets freed? regards, tom lane