[krbdev.mit.edu #2862] Memory leak in krb5-libs up to 1.3.6

[Tom Yu via RT]

>>>>> "Bojan" == Bojan Smojver via RT <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

Bojan> So, it this is all thread-safe related, which means that 1.4 is
Bojan> the right fix. The memory still leaks though, which would be
Bojan> nice if it were fixed in 1.3.x.

I took a closer look at
postgresql-7.4.5/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c and discovered that a
lot of krb5 state is kept as file-scope static variables.  The problem
is therefore mostly postgresql's fault, since it looks like libpq
itself isn't thread-safe.

---Tom