RE: Fix resource leak in FindConflictTuple() retry path

From: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
To: 'Nisha Moond' <nisha(dot)moond412(at)gmail(dot)com>, shveta malik <shveta(dot)malik(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Subject: RE: Fix resource leak in FindConflictTuple() retry path
Date: 2026-09-04 06:59:38
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Dear Nisha, Shveta,

> > IMO, ExecClearTuple() can resolve the problem of pinned buffers but it
> > still leaves the other trivial problem behind that we keep allocating
> > slots while one is enough, which when resued will release buffer pin
> > in ExecStorePinnedBufferHeapTuple() -> tts_buffer_heap_store_tuple()
> > implicitly.
>
> +1

Sorry for missing words, my intention was to additionally modify atop a Nisha's fix.
Had no objections for proposed patch.

> > Therefore, this alone might not be a better fix. But if we want to
> > club it with the fix already provided by Nisha, that will help us
> > releasing the pin a little earlier without relying on next
> > table_tuple_lock() on same slot to do that implictly. That said, I
> > don't see ExecClearTuple() called explicitly in the two similar
> > functions in this file, RelationFindReplTupleByIndex() and
> > RelationFindReplTupleSeq(); both of which reuse a single
> > caller-provided slot across retries and rely purely on the implicit
> > release-on-restore behavior.

Okay, I have not seen that. Then either fixing or retain all is OK for me.

Best regards,
Hayato Kuroda
FUJITSU LIMITED

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