Re: TupleTableSlot abstraction - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: TupleTableSlot abstraction
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Msg-id 20190227063845.57x4lmmdoawhuayn@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: TupleTableSlot abstraction  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: TupleTableSlot abstraction  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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Hi,

On 2019-02-27 15:34:07 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 09:42:38PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I'm not so sure that's the architecturally correct fix however. Is it
> > actually guaranteed, given expanded tuples, toasting, etc, that there's
> > no other memory leak here? I wonder if we shouldn't work twoards using a
> > short lived memory context here. Note how e.g. printtup() uses a short
> > lived context for its work.
> 
> Perhaps.  I got to wonder if this change would not impact code using
> their own DestReceiver, resulting in similar leaks when they insert
> tuples on-the-fly.

Im not sure I understand. How can adding a memory context + reset to
ctas and matview receivers negatively impact other dest receivers?


> I was playing a bit with some refactoring of relation creation for
> CTAS in the scope of temporary matviews, and noticed this issue on the
> CF list, so that was a bit annoying, and issues like that tend to be
> easily forgotten..

It's been 10 days since the report, nobody pinged, and obviously I'm
working on pluggable storage, so ...

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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