Re: Memory leaks on SRF rescan
Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-02-22T02:48:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Given your point (2), is this worth fixing by itself? Right, probably not. > Yeah. I think it's hopeless to expect these functions to all hew to > the straight and narrow path. It seems to me that the right way is for > the sub-select to somehow run in its own "per-query" context. Hmm, I was thinking of just fixing this by arranging for the FuncCallContext's multi-call context to be a special context created by the function scan, and that is reset/deleted at the appropriate time. Would this not fix the issue as well? -Neil