Re: Patch: New GUC prepared_statement_limit to limit memory used by prepared statements

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Migowski <dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Patch: New GUC prepared_statement_limit to limit memory used by prepared statements
Date: 2019-11-28 02:42:50
Message-ID: 20191128024250.GK237562@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:30:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oh ... actually, I bet the problem is that the patch thinks it's okay
> to immediately free space in PlanCacheRelCallback and friends, rather
> than just marking invalid entries as invalid. Nope, you cannot do that.
> You can't tell whether that data is being examined in an outer call
> level.
>
> In principle I think you could decrement-the-refcount-and-possibly-free
> right away on the gplan, since any outside uses of that ought to have
> their own refcounts. But the query_context data isn't refcounted.
> Also, some of the failures I saw looked like premature deletion of a
> plan, not query_context data, so the patch seems to be too aggressive
> on that side too.

We are a couple of months after this update, and the patch has not
been updated, so I am marking it as returned with feedack.
--
Michael

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