[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #624: Memory leak in geography_from_text

[strk]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:55:06AM -0000, PostGIS wrote:
> #624: Memory leak in geography_from_text
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>  Reporter:  ryang    |       Owner:  pramsey      
>      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new          
>  Priority:  medium   |   Milestone:  PostGIS 1.5.3
> Component:  postgis  |     Version:  1.5.X        
>  Keywords:           |  
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>  char *wkt is palloc'ed and never free'd.
> 
>  Was crashing Postgres every run of my script.  Made a simple change to:
> 
>  char wkt[size+1];

The above is not valid ANSI C. You need explicit alloc/free (palloc/pfree).

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