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pg_newlocale_from_collation() used malloc() and strdup() directly, which is generally not per backend coding style, and it didn't bother to check for failure results, but would just SIGSEGV instead. Also, if one of the numerous error checks in the middle of the function failed, the already-allocated memory would be leaked permanently. Admittedly, it's not a lot of memory, but it could build up if this function were called repeatedly for a bad collation. The first two problems are easily cured by palloc'ing in TopMemoryContext instead of calling libc directly. We can fairly easily dodge the leakage problem for the struct pg_locale_struct by filling in a temporary variable and allocating permanent storage only once we reach the bottom of the function. It's harder to get rid of the potential leakage for ICU's copy of the collcollate string, but at least that's only allocated after most of the error checks; so live with that aspect. Back-patch to v10 where this code came in, with one or another of the ICU patches.
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