From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: json_populate_record issue - TupleDesc reference leak |
Date: | 2015-04-30 12:32:00 |
Message-ID: | 20150430123200.GA6364@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 05:31:44PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > This doesn't look quite right. Shouldn't we unconditionally release the
> > Tupledesc before the returns at lines 2118 and 2127, just as we do at
> > the bottom of the function at line 2285?
>
> I think Pavel's patch is probably OK as-is, because the tupdesc returned
> by get_call_result_type isn't reference-counted; but I agree the code
> would look cleaner your way. If the main exit isn't bothering to
> distinguish this then the early exits should not either.
>
> What I'm wondering about, though, is this bit at line 2125:
>
> /* same logic as for json */
> if (!have_record_arg && rec)
> PG_RETURN_POINTER(rec);
>
> If that's supposed to be the same logic as in the other path, then how
> is it that !have_record_arg has anything to do with whether the JSON
> object is empty? Either the code is broken, or the comment is.
Where are we on this?
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