Re: BUG #16160: Minor memory leak in case of starting postgres server with SSL encryption

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, duspensky(at)ya(dot)ru, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #16160: Minor memory leak in case of starting postgres server with SSL encryption
Date: 2021-03-20 16:50:27
Message-ID: 227069.1616259027@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2021-03-16 14:44:55 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> OOMs errors should be gracefully handled and PG should continue to
>> function. Was that not the case..?

> Depends on what you mean with graceful. Unless you restart the database
> you'll eventually not be able to do anything anymore, since even the
> smallest memory allocation will fail?

Yeah, a leak in the postmaster is not gonna end well.

I went ahead and back-patched e0e569e1d. While looking at that,
I noticed that the load_dh_file subroutine was also a few DH_frees
shy of a load, so I fixed that too.

regards, tom lane

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