In the Programmer's Guide, the sample code for accessing large objects
authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:05:54 +0000 (00:05 +0000)
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:05:54 +0000 (00:05 +0000)
commitd12885235818da5575e6e2dd47fa5657642be418
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parenta7ea9f46e17f7ff9fd665c11dcd4466749f4e8ea
In the Programmer's Guide, the sample code for accessing large objects
from libpq has two functions with memory leaks.

The functions pickout() and overwrite() malloc space for buf which is
never freed.

See
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/programmer/largeobjects3207.htm

This problem is also in the 6.5 docs at
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/6.5/programmer/x3184.htm

Nishad Prakash
doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml