Avoid memory leaks when a GatherMerge node is rescanned.
Rescanning a GatherMerge led to leaking some memory in the executor's
query-lifespan context, because most of the node's working data structures
were simply abandoned and rebuilt from scratch. In practice, this might
never amount to much, given the cost of relaunching worker processes ---
but it's still pretty messy, so let's fix it.
We can rearrange things so that the tuple arrays are simply cleared and
reused, and we don't need to rebuild the TupleTableSlots either, just
clear them. One small complication is that because we might get a
different number of workers on each iteration, we can't keep the old
convention that the leader's gm_slots[] entry is the last one; the leader
might clobber a TupleTableSlot that we need for a worker in a future
iteration. Hence, adjust the logic so that the leader has slot 0 always,
while the active workers have slots 1..n.
Back-patch to v10 to keep all the existing versions of nodeGatherMerge.c
in sync --- because of the renumbering of the slots, there would otherwise
be a very large risk that any future backpatches in this module would
introduce bugs.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8670.1504192177@sss.pgh.pa.us
Branch
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REL_10_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7610547c95f3a469115538f4b45eda2563a8188e
Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeGatherMerge.c | 159 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
src/include/nodes/execnodes.h | 3 +-
2 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
