Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints

From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints
Date: 2022-04-04 10:24:56
Message-ID: CAFiTN-vcqFJpchWVN90msJu7MMrTgZ7b4LSdKGiS=+d1QyAeDw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 9:52 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-03-29 11:55:05 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I committed v6 instead.
>
> Coverity complains that this patch added GetDatabasePath() calls without
> freeing its return value. Normally that'd be easy to dismiss, due to memory
> contexts, but there's no granular resets in CreateDatabaseUsingFileCopy(). And
> obviously there can be a lot of relations in one database - we shouldn't hold
> onto the same path over and over again.

> The case in recovery is worse, because there we don't have a memory context to
> reset afaics. Oddly enough, it sure looks like we have an existing version of
> this bug in the file-copy path?

Yeah, I see that the createdb() and dbase_redo() had this existing
problem and with this patch we have created a few more such
occurrences.
The attached patch fixes it.

--
Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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fix_memory_leak.patch text/x-patch 1.1 KB

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