Re: Memory leaks in record_out and record_send

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> I think explicit calls like that actually wouldn't be a problem,
>> since they'd be run in a per-tuple context anyway.  The cases that
>> are problematic are hard-coded I/O function calls.  I'm worried
>> about the ones like, say, plpgsql's built-in conversion operations.
>> We could probably fix printtup's usage with some confidence, but
>> there are a lot of other ones.

> That's a good reason to get them into a shorter memory context, but
> which? per transaction maybe? shorter?

It would have to be per-tuple to do any good.  The existing behavior
is per-query and causes problems if lots of rows are output.  In plpgsql
it would be a function-call-lifespan leak.
        regards, tom lane