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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2021-12-01 13:44:47 -0500 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2021-12-01 13:44:47 -0500 |
commit | fec187dc3ca2b684d31e4cb0445f392d9c909f85 (patch) | |
tree | 993a878ae1e0810d5a3a24ff076903d707a64a90 /src/tutorial/funcs.source | |
parent | 514f0ae4f40f322b1a10bd774abd4b4d01c97a99 (diff) |
Avoid leaking memory during large-scale REASSIGN OWNED BY operations.
The various ALTER OWNER routines tend to leak memory in
CurrentMemoryContext. That's not a problem when they're only called
once per command; but in this usage where we might be touching many
objects, it can amount to a serious memory leak. Fix that by running
each call in a short-lived context.
(DROP OWNED BY likely has a similar issue, except that you'll probably
run out of lock table space before noticing. REASSIGN is worth fixing
since for most non-table object types, it won't take any lock.)
Back-patch to all supported branches. Unfortunately, in the back
branches this helps to only a limited extent, since the sinval message
queue bloats quite a lot in this usage before commit 3aafc030a,
consuming memory more or less comparable to what's actually leaked.
Still, it's clearly a leak with a simple fix, so we might as well fix it.
Justin Pryzby, per report from Guillaume Lelarge
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAECtzeW2DAoioEGBRjR=CzHP6TdL=yosGku8qZxfX9hhtrBB0Q@mail.gmail.com
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