Re: BUG #17828: postgres_fdw leaks file descriptors on error and aborts aborted transaction in lack of fds

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Etsuro Fujita <etsuro(dot)fujita(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #17828: postgres_fdw leaks file descriptors on error and aborts aborted transaction in lack of fds
Date: 2024-02-09 00:09:48
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJngeN3Sm9g2QTQd3-HxnRm-0aaPzYFJ=hCmh+T9F8Sjw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 11:06 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I also wonder if postgres_fdw should strive to use a longer lived wait event
> > set. For efficiency, if nothing else? That'd avoid the need to create one
> > during error handling.
>
> Seems like a plausible idea. Having to acquire resources to clean up
> an error is an anti-pattern for sure.

FWIW, WRT to the long lived WES idea, I have had patches to explore
several different ways to do that (as I already did successfully for
other areas), and I will write about that again later, but I concluded
that we needed to fix this Windows nonsense first:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/46/3523/ (That got withdrawn for
being too slow, but I'll resubmit it soon enough...)

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