| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Chad Wagner <chad(dot)wagner(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Preventing tuple-table leakage in plpgsql |
| Date: | 2013-07-25 20:48:51 |
| Message-ID: | 25726.1374785331@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> Another point worth making is that this version of the patch deletes the
> tuple tables during AtEOSubXact_SPI(), earlier in cleanup than would
> happen with the prior version. That increases the risk that external
> code might try to delete an already-deleted tuple table, if it tries
> to call SPI_freetuptable() during subxact cleanup. The new code won't
> crash, although come to think of it it will probably throw an error
> because you're not connected anymore. (Maybe this is a reason to not
> insist on being connected, but just silently search whatever the top
> stack context is?)
After further reflection I think that's the prudent way to do it, so
I've adjusted SPI_freetuptable to not insist on being connected.
Pushed with that change:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3d13623d75d3206c8f009353415043a191ebab39
regards, tom lane
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