On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 14:23, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On 2022-Jul-21, Japin Li wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 09:48, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
>> > We are talking about 256 bytes being leaked in each loop when a
>> > validation pattern or when a query fails, so I don't see a strong
>> > argument in manipulating 10~14 more than necessary for this amount of
>> > memory. The contents of describe.c are the same for v15 though, and
>> > we are still in beta on REL_15_STABLE, so I have applied the patch
>> > down to v15, adding what Alvaro has sent on top of the rest.
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation! IMO, we could ignore v10-13 branches, however,
>> we should backpatch to v14 which also uses the validateSQLNamePattern()
>> function leading to a memory leak.
>
> I'd agree in principle, but in practice the commit from 15 does not apply
> cleanly on 14 -- there's a ton of conflicts.
I attached a patch for v14 [1] based on master, if you want to apply it,
please consider reviewing it.
[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/MEYP282MB166974D3883A1A6E25B5FDAEB68E9%40MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
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