Re: [GENERAL] Memory Errors...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Ian Harding" <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Memory Errors...
Date: 2002-09-19 16:52:39
Message-ID: 26965.1032454359@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I said:
> Yeah, I see very quick memory exhaustion also :-(. Looks like the
> spi_exec call is the culprit, but I'm not sure exactly why ...
> anyone have time to look at this?

On looking a little more closely, it's clear that pltcl_SPI_exec()
should be, and is not, calling SPI_freetuptable() once it's done with
the tuple table returned by SPI_exec(). This needs to be done in all
the non-elog code paths after SPI_exec has returned SPI_OK_SELECT.
pltcl_SPI_execp() has a similar problem, and there may be comparable
bugs in other pltcl routines (not to mention other sources of memory
leaks, but I think this is the problem for your example).

I have no time to work on this right now; any volunteers out there?

regards, tom lane

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