Re: Avoid memory leaks during base backups

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 1:35 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think elsewhere in the code we reset dangling pointers either ways -
> before or after deleting/resetting memory context. But placing them
> before would give us extra safety in case memory context
> deletion/reset fails. Not sure what's the best way.

I think it's OK to assume that deallocating memory will always
succeed, so it doesn't matter whether you do it just before or just
after that. But it's not OK to assume that *allocating* memory will
always succeed.

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Robert Haas
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