Re: BUG #16666: Slight memory leak when running pg_ctl reload

PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> I found slighting memory leakage occured when running pg_ctl reload command
> for the following code segment(guc.c:6726-6740). When runing 'pg_ctl
> reload', for these string type PGC_POSTMASTER GUC variables like
> 'unix_socket_directories', the following code segment will leak newval's
> memery.

Yeah, you're right.  If there's a "newextra" chunk, that'll get
leaked too.

Even counting that, it's not very plausible that one would SIGHUP a
server often enough that the bloat would become obvious, since these
values typically aren't very large.  But it's clearly a bug.

Patch applied, thanks for the report!

            regards, tom lane