Re: describe objects, as in pg_depend

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-11-18T19:20:34Z

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has_table_privilege spawns scions has_database_privilege, has_function_privilege,
- 4ab8e6909445 7.3.1 cited

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I just noticed that this is leaking a bit of memory, because we call
> getObjectDescription (which pallocs its result) and then
> cstring_to_text which pallocs a copy.  This is not a lot and it's not
> going to live much anyway, is it worrying about?

No.  The extra string will go away at the end of the tuple cycle.
I don't think it's a particularly good idea for this code to assume
that getObjectDescription's result is freeable, anyway.

			regards, tom lane