[Pljava-dev] TupleDesc reference leak

From: johann at 2ndquadrant(dot)com (Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson)
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Subject: [Pljava-dev] TupleDesc reference leak
Date: 2012-06-21 10:51:46
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Hi Heikki,

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas at enterprisedb.com> writes:

> The other is in Type.c, in Type_fromOid function:

> I'm not sure what to do about that one. UDT_registerUDT() puts the
> TupleDesc Reference to a field in the UDT instance it creates. It's
> not clear to me what the lifecycle of that instance is. If we just
> created a copy of the TupleDesc, would we leak memory? Can the UDT
> object persist over transactions, in which case it holds a dangling
> pointer to the TupleDesc?

I'll have to take a closer look at that later. Hence I have not closed
the bug.

> Anyway, please apply the attached patch, at least.

Done. Thank you.

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