Re: BUG #4496: Memory leak in pg_dump.c?

Aggro wrote:
>
> --- Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> wrote:
>

> > I think all information is collected and they are
> > used for all pg_dump run. It
> > does not make sense to free them. See line 725.
>
> But is the memory freed at some point? E.g. when
> program shuts down? If it is not freed ever, then it
> is a memory leak.

A pg_dump run is comparatively short-lived, so if Zdenek is right then
there's no important leak here -- we're counting on program exit to
release the memory.  There's probably little point in releasing things
earlier than that.

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