During parallel pg_dump, free commands from master

The command strings read by the child processes during parallel
pg_dump, after being read and handled, were not being free'd.
This patch corrects this relatively minor memory leak.

Leak found by the Coverity scanner.

Back patch to 9.3 where parallel pg_dump was introduced.

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/parallel.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/parallel.c
index ceab58b157c3412ccbcb427d4a77d878813754da..7208b0fec236e7cff77c799d6b2fb7bd010e70bd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/parallel.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/parallel.c
@@ -922,6 +922,9 @@ WaitForCommands(ArchiveHandle *AH, int pipefd[2])
            exit_horribly(modulename,
                          "unrecognized command on communication channel: %s\n",
                          command);
+
+       /* command was pg_malloc'd and we are responsible for free()ing it. */
+       free(command);
    }
 }