Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Add non-blocking version of PQcancel

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Add non-blocking version of PQcancel
Date: 2024-03-27 18:46:19
Message-ID: 202403271846.yfbljes2v3zq@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Mar-27, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> I changed it so that the error messages are returned as translated
> phrases, and was bothered by the fact that if errors happen repeatedly,
> the memory for them might be leaked. Maybe this is fine depending on
> the caller's memory context, but since it's only at most one string each
> time, it's quite easy to just keep track of it so that we can release it
> on the next.

(Actually this sounds clever but fails pretty obviously if the caller
does free the string, such as in a memory context reset. So I guess we
have to just accept the potential leakage.)

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