plpgsql function seems to be leaking memory

From: Marc Cousin <mcousin(at)sigma(dot)fr>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: plpgsql function seems to be leaking memory
Date: 2008-06-24 08:56:29
Message-ID: 200806241056.29589.mcousin@sigma.fr
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Hi,

I'm having a problem with plpgsql functions leaking memory.

I've reproduced the problem with this simple function here :

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ftest()
RETURNS boolean AS
$BODY$BEGIN
INSERT INTO test2 values (1);
RETURN true;
END;$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;

test2 table is a one column table

CREATE TABLE test2
(
id integer
)
WITH (OIDS=FALSE);

Then to see the leak, I've called it repeatedly with a perl program :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
#
use DBI;
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=test","postgres");

my $statement = 'SELECT ftest ()';
$sth = $dbh->prepare($statement);
$dbh->begin_work();
for ($i=0;$i<1000000;$i++)
{
$sth->execute();
}
$dbh->rollback();

I see the postgresql process growing from 8MB to about 400 MB during this
run...

It only seems to happen when a function contains an insert statement (I don't
see leaks when only selecting).

logs=# SELECT version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (Debian 4.3.1-1)
4.3.1
(1 row)

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