Re: pl/python tracebacks

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>
Cc: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-24T12:48:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On lör, 2011-02-12 at 10:07 +0100, Jan Urbański wrote:
> > PLyUnicode_AsString(PyObject *unicode)
> > {
> >     PyObject   *o = PLyUnicode_Bytes(unicode);
> >     char       *rv = pstrdup(PyBytes_AsString(o));
> > 
> >     Py_XDECREF(o);
> >     return rv;
> > }
> > 
> > PyString_AsString is used all over the place without any pfrees. But
> I
> > have no Idea how that pstrdup() is getting freed if at all.
> > 
> > Care to enlighten me ?
> 
> Ooops, seems that this hack that's meant to improve compatibility with
> Python3 makes it leak. I wonder is the pstrdup is necessary here,

The result of PyBytes_AsString(o) points into the internal storage of o,
which is released (effectively freed) by the decref on the next line.
So you'd better make a copy if you want to keep using it.