The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 6133
Logged by: Kurt Mielke
Email address: kurt@it-pilots.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.4.8 + 9.0.4
Operating system: Centos X86_64 5.5 & 6.0
Description: -lpq frees unallocated memory on exit
Details:
x.c: is a very simple c-program:
main() { }
When compiled with
gcc -o x -lpq x.c
valgrind ./x
says "invalid free ... Address 0x4029508 is not stack'd, malloc'd or
(recently) free'd"
gcc -o x x.c
does not have this problem
I have tried linking with centos distribution developer versions and tried
making it from 8.4.2 8.4.8 9.0.4 tar balls, using configure with no options
The problem is the same - I found a posting from 2002 which I think is the
same problem, but I found no follow-ups.
I looked at make output to identify other libraries, which might be
responsible - but:
gcc -o x -lcrypt -ldl -lm -lpgport -lpgtypes -lpthread -lreadline -lz x.c
is OK, while linking with either -lpq or -lecpg will give you the valgrind
error.
On the two machines I tried it on I have:
gcc.x86_64 4.4.4-13.el6 / glibc.i686 2.12-1.7.el6_0.5
gcc.x86_64 4.1.2-50.el5 / glibc.i686 2.5-58.el5_6.4
And "Yes!" - the problem is also present if I do some real pg-lib, like
running testlibpq3.c - again there is one free too many.