On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:40 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:26 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Can we consider the possibility to destroy the toast_hash in
> > > ReorderBufferCleanupTXN/ReorderBufferTruncateTXN? It will delay the
> > > clean up of memory till the end of stream or txn but there won't be
> > > any memory leak.
> > >
> >
> > The other possibility could be to clean it up when we clean the spec
> > insert change in the below code:
>
> Yeah that could be done.
>
> > /*
> > * There's a speculative insertion remaining, just clean in up, it
> > * can't have been successful, otherwise we'd gotten a confirmation
> > * record.
> > */
> > if (specinsert)
> > {
> > ReorderBufferReturnChange(rb, specinsert, true);
> > specinsert = NULL;
> > }
> >
> > But I guess we might miss cleaning it up in case of an error. A
> > similar problem could be there in the idea where we will try to tie
> > the clean up with the next change.
>
> In error case also we can handle it in the CATCH block no?
>
True, but if you do this clean-up in ReorderBufferCleanupTXN then you
don't need to take care at separate places. Also, toast_hash is stored
in txn so it appears natural to clean it up in while releasing TXN.
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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
