Re: Memory leak in WAL sender with pgoutput (v10~)

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Memory leak in WAL sender with pgoutput (v10~)
Date: 2024-12-09 10:06:15
Message-ID: CAA4eK1JEmjtaA+wQ0iSr_m6tBi-sNXEDjVx7v_TO42jYYRMSMQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:56 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I realized that this patch cannot be backpatched because it introduces a new
> > field into the public PGOutputData structure. Therefore, I think we may need to
> > use Alvaro's version [1] for the back branches.
>
> FWIW for back branches, I prefer using the foreach-pfree pattern
> Michael first proposed, just in case. It's not elegant but it can
> solve the problem while there is no risk of breaking non-core
> extensions.
>

It couldn't solve the problem completely even in back-branches. The
SQL API case I mentioned and tested by Hou-San in the email [1] won't
be solved.

[1] - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/OS0PR01MB57166A4DA0ABBB94F2FBB28694362%40OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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