On 2018-Nov-23, Euler Taveira wrote:
> Em qui, 22 de nov de 2018 às 20:03, Petr Jelinek
> <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> escreveu:
> > Won't this leak memory? The list_free only frees the list cells, but not
> > the nodes you stored there before.
>
> Good catch. It should be list_free_deep.
Actually, if the nodes have more structure (say you palloc one list
item, but that list item also contains pointers to a Node) then a
list_free_deep won't be enough either. I'd suggest to create a bespoke
memory context, which you can delete afterwards.
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