Re: Adding some error context for lock wait failures

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Steve Baldwin <steve(dot)baldwin(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Adding some error context for lock wait failures
Date: 2025-10-09 15:22:39
Message-ID: 2952775.1760023359@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> valgrind complains that there's a memory leak here:

> ==374853== 1,024 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1,257 of 1,459
> ==374853== at 0xFD902A: palloc (mcxt.c:1389)
> ==374853== by 0x101A3D6: initStringInfoInternal (stringinfo.c:45)
> ==374853== by 0x101A46B: initStringInfo (stringinfo.c:99)
> ==374853== by 0xD8CF32: waitonlock_error_callback (lock.c:2027)
> ==374853== by 0xF916E2: errfinish (elog.c:510)

Hmm, that is interesting -- I'd expect error cleanup to deal with
that. Did you happen to notice the exact repro case? It's surely
easy enough to add a pfree, but I don't believe that other errcontext
callbacks are any more careful than this one.

regards, tom lane

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