Memory leak on hashed agg rescan

From: "Neil Conway" <neil(dot)conway(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Memory leak on hashed agg rescan
Date: 2008-10-16 02:18:30
Message-ID: b4e5ce320810151918g2acf69ebh9f80f4f2e1c203a0@mail.gmail.com
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I noticed a minor leak in the per-query context when ExecReScanAgg()
is called for a hashed aggregate. During rescan, build_hash_table() is
called to create a new empty hash table in the aggcontext. However,
build_hash_table() also constructs the "hash_needed" column list in
the per-query context, so repeated calls of build_hash_table() result
in leaking this memory for the duration of the query.

Attached is a patch that fixes this by only constructing "hash_needed"
if it doesn't already exist. I also bms_free'd the temporary BMS that
is created, although that's pretty harmless.

Neil

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hashed_agg_mem_leak-1.patch application/octet-stream 2.4 KB

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