Hi,
I've written an extension in C to sum jsonb. For that I use the
jsonbiterator defined in
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend/utils/adt/jsonb_util.c#L743
In the comments of JsonbIteratorNext it states: 'Callers in such a
scenario, that are particularly sensitive to leaking memory in a
long-lived context may walk the ancestral tree from the final iterator
we left them with to its oldest ancestor, pfree()ing as they go'
In the extension that I've written, I sometimes stop in the middle of
an iteration, but only to raise an error (if the json contains a not
numeric value), with 'ereport(ERROR, ...'
Do I have to free the memory in that case? According to this guide to
write extensions
(http://big-elephants.com/2015-10/writing-postgres-extensions-part-i/)
it wouldn't be necessary because 'Memory allocated by palloc will be
freed automatically at the end of each transaction'. So if I
understand it correctly I wouldn't have to.
Thanks
