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Re: pl/python quoting functions

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-23T15:44:01Z
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On ons, 2011-02-23 at 11:26 +0100, Jan Urbański wrote:
> One thing: you removed the conditional pfree from PLy_quote_ident,
> which makes this function leak memory if the actual quoting took
> place, no? Is that leak too small to worry about?

Many functions in PostgreSQL leak memory in this way.  It's not worth
worrying about, and certainly not worth violating a called function's
API for it.