Re: tableam scan-API patch broke foreign key validation

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Hadi Moshayedi <hadi(at)moshayedi(dot)net>
Subject: Re: tableam scan-API patch broke foreign key validation
Date: 2019-04-08 05:54:40
Message-ID: 20190408055440.x2xkdsnpg7qi4kxn@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-04-06 14:43:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2019-04-06 14:34:34 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Why should this code need to free anything? That'd be the responsibility
> >> of the slot code, no?
>
> > Well, not really. If a slot doesn't hold heap tuples internally,
> > ExecFetchSlotHeapTuple() will return a fresh heap tuple (but signal so
> > by setting *should_free = true if not NULL).
>
> Ah, got it: ignoring should_free is indeed a potential issue here.

I've pushed a revised version of my earlier patch adding a memory
context that's reset after each tuple.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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