Re: PostgreSQL 14.4 ERROR: out of memory issues

Aleš Zelený <zeleny.ales@gmail.com> writes:
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION tescase (_id_data_provider integer, _external_id
> bigint DEFAULT NULL::bigint, _external_complete_id character varying
> DEFAULT NULL::character varying)
>  RETURNS TABLE(id_gm bigint, id_opp bigint, id_opp_state integer)
>  LANGUAGE sql
> AS $function$
> SELECT ... simple join of two tables...
>      WHERE opd.id_data_provider = _id_data_provider
>        AND CASE WHEN _external_id IS NULL
>                 THEN external_id IS NULL
>                 ELSE external_id = _external_id
>            END
>        AND CASE WHEN _external_complete_id IS NULL
>                 THEN _external_complete_id IS NULL
>                 ELSE external_complete_id = _external_complete_id
>            END;
> $function$
> ;

> It is a kind of creative construct for me, but it works. The key here is
> that if I replace at least one of the "CASEd" where conditions, it seems
> not to suffer from the memory leak issue.

> Finally, I've found, that even having the function as is and before the
> test disabling JIT (SET jit = off;) and calling the function 100k times,
> RssAnon memory for the given process is stable and only 3612 kB, while when
> JIT is enabled (the default setting on the server suffering from the memory
> leak, RssAnon memory for the given process growth in a linear manner over
> time (canceled when it reached 5GB).

Ah.  I bet this is another instance of the known memory leakage problems
with JIT inlining [1].  Per Andres' comments in that thread, it seems
hard to solve properly.  For now all I can recommend is to disable that.

                        regards, tom lane

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20201001021609.GC8476%40telsasoft.com