Re: Decoding speculative insert with toast leaks memory

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Decoding speculative insert with toast leaks memory
Date: 2021-05-29 04:29:52
Message-ID: CAA4eK1Kmj9HzdDPOW3HFaq0A0=d7Ng_qyH3T=7yk0=MYcPZ6Qg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 5:16 PM Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if there's a way to free the TOASTed data earlier, instead of
> waiting until the end of the transaction (as this patch does).
>

IIUC we are anyway freeing the toasted data at the next
insert/update/delete. We can try to free at other change message types
like REORDER_BUFFER_CHANGE_MESSAGE but as you said that may make the
patch more complex, so it seems better to do the fix on the lines of
what is proposed in the patch.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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