Re: Fix memory leak in gist_page_items() of pageinspect

On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 09:00:08AM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 04:50:09PM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
>> where CStringGetTextDatum() has made a copy of buf.data and assigned to
>> value[4], however buf.data is never free-ed.
>
> I did not look in details but I think that we should be in a short lived
> memory context here so we generally prefer to avoid using pfree for those cases.

The only thing that does a memory allocation is the StringInfo, why
would a memory context be worth the complication here?

> That might be a valid reason though. Do you have an idea of the "leak" size
> based on the number of tuples?

I presume that this just needs to imply a very large index, as we are
doing a simple loop with the items stored in a tuplestore
(CStringGetTextDatum does a palloc() for a value so we do not care
about the contents of the StringInfo).

The relation_close() inconsistency is a fun find. We tend to be
careful with the APIs when opening relations and the ones that enforce
relkind checks, at least on style ground.
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Michael