Re: PostgreSQL 17: Bug in libpq when libpq is dlopened/closed multiple times
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>,
Daniel Schreiber <daniel.schreiber@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: 2026-04-22T19:23:53Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> writes: > If anyone has thoughts on that, I'd love to hear them. I don't mind > removing this unnecessary code in HEAD, or even backpatching as a > courtesy -- but if it were up to me, I would not guarantee zero global > resource leaks across libpq and its entire dependency graph. I agree that we have no real ability to guarantee that. Still, as far as the presented patch goes, it seems like a clear win so I'd vote for fix-and-backpatch. Should we write the arguments as BIO_TYPE_NONE | BIO_TYPE_SOURCE_SINK rather than just BIO_TYPE_SOURCE_SINK? regards, tom lane