On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:52:53AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, if Coverity's idea of good programming practice is that every
> program must explicitly free everything it ever malloced before it
> terminates, then I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree. The
I don't think Coverity even knows how long a program may run.
But while I agree that freeing all memory is not needed in a short
running program, I still think we should examine those reports because
they may show some real bugs. At least this is what happened to some
degree in ecpg.
Michael
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