Re: pg_plan_advice

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Lukas Fittl <lukas(at)fittl(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_plan_advice
Date: 2026-03-27 14:20:30
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY79RwaFyXpcMvniLUSKbC19mYpr9pXy8inuDZCzagk4A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 7:21 PM Mark Dilger
<mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Then every single query that triggers advice collection will:
> 1. Successfully allocate an advice entry from existing free space
> 2. Enter store_shared_advice, hit the same chunk boundary
> 3. Fail to allocate the chunk
> 4. Leak the advice entry
> 5. Reduce remaining free space in the small size classes

Yeah, that's a leak. I just got through trying to harden
pg_stash_advice so that kind of thing can't happen, but I failed to
realize that pg_collect_advice has a version of the same issue.

Thanks,

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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