Re: BUG #12910: Memory leak with logical decoding - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Hi,

Can you tell me, at which point after testing this can me included in
some branch and after in some officials PostgreSQL version ?

Regards,
Peter Slavov

На 9.04.2015 в 20:34, Andres Freund написа:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-04-09 18:11:27 +0300, Peter Slavov wrote:
>> I prepared a test case, that can reproduce the problem.
> Yup. I can reproduce it... I did not (yet) have the time to run the test
> to completion, but i believe the attached patch should fix the problem
> (and also improve performance a bit...).
>
> Using the SQL interface for such large transactions isn't going to be
> fun as all of the data, due to the nature of the set returning function
> implementation in postgres, will be additionally written into a
> tuplestore. The streaming interface doesn't have that behaviour.
>
> Additionally it's probably not a good idea to stream such a large
> resultset via SELECT using psql - IIRC it'll try to store all that data
> in memory :). Try something like
> \copy (select * from pg_logical_slot_peek_changes('testing', null, 1)) TO /tmp/f
> or such.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund