Re: Enhancing Memory Context Statistics Reporting

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enhancing Memory Context Statistics Reporting
Date: 2026-01-13 21:47:41
Message-ID: o3n2sowv7cjzaha2vcavb7rb6locudyd2w7ajynrg54ktl42ox@pnc7zoc4f6yo
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Hi,

On 2026-01-13 16:11:24 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > All the error handling paths (hopefully) have an LWLockReleaseAll()... Which
> > is pretty crucial given that we do stuff outside of transactions in other
> > places.
> >
> > That doesn't mean the other concerns about resource management are unfounded,
> > however.
>
> Yeah, I actually wasn't completely sure about that particular comment.
> I think what will happen if we ERROR outside of a transaction is that
> it will become FATAL and kill the backend, but I'm not 100% positive
> about that.

I'm pretty sure that doesn't generally happen. There's promotion to FATAL if
the top-level sigsetjmp() hasn't yet run (c.f. the check for
PG_exception_stack in errstart()), but once it has been reached, it stays
configured.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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