Re: Coverity reports looking good

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:49:24PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Whats basically left is a large number of memory leaks in frontend
> applications such as pg_dump, initdb, pg_ctl, etc. These haven't ever
> really been a priority (buildACLCommands is really bad in this
> respect).
> ...
> If someone wants to make a serious attempt at tackling them, I can
> provide an updated list.

If my time permits I'm willing to look into these a little bit as I now
know a little bit about Coverity reports. And since I found that these
reports not only show potential memory leaks (which I don't worry about
much in short lived frontend apps) they sometimes point to bugs that may
cause real problems.

I just had a small look at one in pg_dump.c. However, it seems the line
numbers are completely different from my CVS snapshot. Are the Coverity
reports you listed up-to-date?

Michael
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