Re: TupleTableSlot abstraction

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: TupleTableSlot abstraction
Date: 2019-02-27 06:38:45
Message-ID: 20190227063845.57x4lmmdoawhuayn@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-02-27 15:34:07 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 09:42:38PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I'm not so sure that's the architecturally correct fix however. Is it
> > actually guaranteed, given expanded tuples, toasting, etc, that there's
> > no other memory leak here? I wonder if we shouldn't work twoards using a
> > short lived memory context here. Note how e.g. printtup() uses a short
> > lived context for its work.
>
> Perhaps. I got to wonder if this change would not impact code using
> their own DestReceiver, resulting in similar leaks when they insert
> tuples on-the-fly.

Im not sure I understand. How can adding a memory context + reset to
ctas and matview receivers negatively impact other dest receivers?

> I was playing a bit with some refactoring of relation creation for
> CTAS in the scope of temporary matviews, and noticed this issue on the
> CF list, so that was a bit annoying, and issues like that tend to be
> easily forgotten..

It's been 10 days since the report, nobody pinged, and obviously I'm
working on pluggable storage, so ...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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