Re: SRF memory leaks - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SRF memory leaks
Date
Msg-id 8259.1204145892@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: SRF memory leaks  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Negative refcount does not prove that the SRF itself hasn't
>> still got a pointer to the tupdesc.

> That sounds quite bizarre. The SRF has already finished execution at
> this point, so keeping a pointer to the tupledesc around would only make
> sense if you wanted to use that tupledesc on a *subsequent* invocation
> of the SRF.

Hmm ... actually I was worried about it being embedded in the returned
tuplestore, but I see tuplestore doesn't currently use a tupdesc at all,
so maybe it isn't that big a problem.

            regards, tom lane

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