Re: Fix for memory leak in dblink

On 01/11/2010 07:43 PM, Takahiro Itagaki wrote:
> There is a memory leak in dblink when we cancel a query during
> returning tuples. It could leak a PGresult because memory used
> by it is not palloc'ed one. I wrote a patch[1] before, but I've
> badly used global variables to track the resource.
> 
> The attached is a cleaned up patch rewritten to use a tuplestore
> (SFRM_Materialize mode) to return tuples suggested at [2]. Since
> we don't return from the dblink function in tuplestore mode, we
> can surely release the PGresult with a PG_CATCH block even on error.

Thanks -- I'll review this weekend.

Joe