Repair memory leakage while ANALYZE-ing complex index expressions.
The general design of memory management in Postgres is that intermediate
results computed by an expression are not freed until the end of the tuple
cycle. For expression indexes, ANALYZE has to re-evaluate each expression
for each of its sample rows, and it wasn't bothering to free intermediate
results until the end of processing of that index. This could lead to very
substantial leakage if the intermediate results were large, as in a recent
example from Jakub Ouhrabka. Fix by doing ResetExprContext for each sample
row. This necessitates adding a datumCopy step to ensure that the final
expression value isn't recycled too. Some quick testing suggests that this
change adds at worst about 10% to the time needed to analyze a table with
an expression index; which is annoying, but seems a tolerable price to pay
to avoid unexpected out-of-memory problems.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Branch
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REL8_4_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0e4331d04fa007830666c5baa2c3e37cce9c3ff
Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/analyze.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)