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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ranier Vilela <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Avoid possible memory leak (src/common/rmtree.c)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 11:54:48 +0900
Message-ID: <ZMR/[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <CAEudQAoN3-2ZKBALThnEk_q2hu8En5A0WG9O+5siJTQKVZzoWQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 04:45:22PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Skimming the tree there doesn't seem to be any callers which aren't exiting or
> ereporting on failure so the real-world impact seems low.  That being said,
> silencing static analyzers could be reason enough to delay allocation.

A different reason would be out-of-core code that uses rmtree() in a
memory context where the leak would be an issue if facing a failure
continuously?  Delaying the allocation after the OPENDIR() seems like
a good practice anyway.
--
Michael


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