Re: memory leak in trigger handling (since PG12)

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: memory leak in trigger handling (since PG12)
Date: 2023-05-25 14:43:55
Message-ID: 0376ae2d-570e-8837-9e93-8ada1deb2cee@enterprisedb.com
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On 5/24/23 22:19, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> ...
>
> Hm - stepping back a bit, why are we doing the work in ExecGetAllUpdatedCols()
> over and over? Unless I am missing something, the result doesn't change
> across rows. And it doesn't look that cheap to compute, leaving aside the
> allocation that bms_union() does.
>
> It's visible in profiles, not as a top entry, but still.
>
> Perhaps the easiest to backpatch fix is to just avoid recomputing the value?
> But perhaps it'd be just as problmeatic, because callers might modify
> ExecGetAllUpdatedCols()'s return value in place...
>

Yes, I think that's a perfectly valid point - I was actually wondering
about that too, but I was focused on fixing this in backbranches so I
left this as a future optimization (assuming it can be cached).

regards

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Tomas Vondra
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