Do I have to free storage in a UDF if I raise an error?

["Pfuntner, John" <John.Pfuntner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I've done a palloc() to get storage inside a user-defined function and raise an error using ereport(),  should I be using pfree() to release the storage before the ereport()?
	
Consider this example in C:

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(Example);
Datum
Example(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) {
  VarChar* pstring=PG_GETARG_VARCHAR_P(0);
  VarChar* ret=NULL;

  int len = VARSIZE(pstring) - VARHDRSZ;
  char *string=palloc(len+1);
  memcpy(string, VARDATA(pstring), len);
  string[len] = '\0';

  /* ... */

  if ( /* some bad condition */ ) {
    ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_DATA_EXCEPTION), errmsg("some bad condition occurred!")));
  }

  /* ... */

  pfree(string);

  if (ret == NULL)
    PG_RETURN_NULL();
  else
    PG_RETURN_VARCHAR_P(ret);
}

I only have the pfree() at the end before the return if there is no error.  If I fail to call pfree() before ereport(), do I have a memory leak?


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