Re: tuplesort Generation memory contexts don't play nicely with index builds

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: tuplesort Generation memory contexts don't play nicely with index builds
Date: 2022-06-30 03:54:23
Message-ID: CAApHDvq2iQ0WygUCacYfSWWsbXBUFwrjtqf1EV=VpnFQP1b7wA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 12:59, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I noticed while doing some memory context related work that since we
> now use generation.c memory contexts for tuplesorts (40af10b57) that
> tuplesort_putindextuplevalues() causes memory "leaks" in the
> generation context due to index_form_tuple() being called while we're
> switched into the state->tuplecontext.

I've attached a draft patch which changes things so that we don't use
generation contexts for sorts being done for index builds.

David

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