On 27.11.24 16:35, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 04:33:25PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 26.11.24 14:56, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>>> Since 811af9786b, the palloc'd idxkey's seem to be leaking/accumulating
>>> throughout the command.
>>>
>>> I noticed this on the master branch while running ANALYZE on partitioned
>>> table with 600 attributes, even though only 6 were being analyzed.
>>>
>>> LOG: level: 3; BuildRelationExtStatistics: 1239963512 total in 278 blocks; 5082984 free (296 chunks); 1234880528
used
>>>
>>> Several indexes are being scanned many thousands of times.
>>
>> Hmm, this patch inserts one additional palloc() call per
>> systable_beginscan(). So it won't have much of an impact for isolated
>> calls, but for thousands of scans you get thousands of small chunks of
>> memory.
>>
>> Does your test case get better if you insert corresponding pfree() calls?
>
> Yes -- I'd already checked.
Ok, I committed a fix that inserts some pfree() calls. Thanks for the
report.
