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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to properly fix memory leak
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:48:00 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwZKp_FWZ0mi9H8th+fh70KeoV=4_6uB40TvQ9r1Q04UhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Friday, April 25, 2025, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>         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.


Seems like a false positive.


>
> Should I call PQclear() on every iteration of the loop?
>

Would make processing more than a single row impossible if you throw away
the result after processing one row.

David J.


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