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From: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to properly fix memory leak
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:53:58 -0500
Message-ID: <CA+FnnTzVntnd+RBvNQ57ZkPgKNc7HTjhxvtuELBNVcsSbZut5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <CA+FnnTyR9AoJx-3zuvgudeYmUTiNcfpAucUh0ZTcs=Ajy49qVA@mail.gmail.com>
	<[email protected]>

Hi, Lauren’s,

On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2025-04-25 at 22:24 -0500, Igor Korot wrote:
> > Hi, ALL,
> >
> > [code]
> >     auto res = PQexec( m_db, m_pimpl->m_myconv.to_bytes( query.c_str()
> > ).c_str() );      /* ask for binary results */
> >     if( PQresultStatus( res ) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK )
> >     {
> >         auto err = m_pimpl->m_myconv.from_bytes( PQerrorMessage( m_db )
> );
> >         errorMsg.push_back( L"Update validation table: " + err );
> >         result = 1;
> >     }
> >     else
> >     {
> >         for( int i = 0; i < PQntuples( res ); i++ )
> >         {
> >             auto temp1 = m_pimpl->m_myconv.from_bytes( PQgetvalue(
> > res, i, 1 ) );
> >             m_tablespaces.push_back( temp1 );
> >         } // this line gives a leak according to VLD
> >     }
> >     PQclear( res );
> >     return result;
> > [/code]
> >
> > I ran this code on MSVC 2017  with VLD and according to the VLD report I
> have
> > a memory leak on the line indicated.
> >
> > Should I call PQclear() on every iteration of the loop?
> >
> > And I hope I handle the error cae properly...
>
> No, PQclear() would cause an error (double free).
>
> If it is not a spurious complaint, the leak would have to be in
> m_tablespaces.push_back().


No, it is not spurious.
I’m getting it every time I run the program.

The m_tablespaces variable is declared as “std::vector<std::wstring>. No
pointer is involved.
I don’t see how it can produce the leak…

Thank you.


>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>


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