Re: Life cycles of tuple descriptors

From: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Life cycles of tuple descriptors
Date: 2021-12-15 23:20:11
Message-ID: 61BA782B.3070304@anastigmatix.net
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On 12/15/21 17:50, Tom Lane wrote:

> Here's a draft patch for this. There are several places that are
> directly using DecrTupleDescRefCount after lookup_rowtype_tupdesc
> or equivalent, which'd now be forbidden. I think they are all safe
> given the assumption that the typcache's tupdescs for named composites
> are refcounted. (The calls in expandedrecord.c could be working
> with RECORD, but those code paths just checked that the tupdesc
> is refcounted.) So there's no actual bug here, and no reason to
> back-patch, but this seems like a good idea to decouple callers
> a bit more from typcache's internal logic.

I agree with the analysis at each of those sites, and the new comment
clears up everything that had puzzled me before.

Regards,
-Chap

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