Re: BUG #4996: postgres.exe memory consumption keeps going up

On 23/08/2009 12:42 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Craig
> Ringer<craig@postnewspapers.com.au>  wrote:
>> Interestingly, though, the test program does appear to be leaking - at
>> least, the peak working set slowly climbs. It's all private working set. Not
>> sure why yet since the memory use looks like it _should_ be constant.
>
> How does the return value of str() get cleaned up here?
>
>                  PGresult* res=PQexec(conn,insert.str().c_str());

str() returns a std::string instance by value. It's not returning a
pointer to a heap allocated object. The returned std::string is cleaned
up when it leaves scope - in this case, at end-of-statement.

c_str() is called on the temporary std::string . This returns a const
char * to a block of memory owned by the std::string . It must *NOT* be
freed by the caller or modified by the caller. It's usually just the
internal buffer maintained by the std::string. See:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/c_str/

So, no, there's no leak there.

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Craig Ringer