Sasha Sirovica created ARROW-17573:
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             Summary: [Go] String Binary Builder Leaks Memory When Writing to 
Parquet
                 Key: ARROW-17573
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17573
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Go
    Affects Versions: 9.0.0
            Reporter: Sasha Sirovica


When using `arrow.BinaryTypes.String` in a schema, appending multiple strings, 
and then writing a record out to parquet the memory of the program continuously 
increases. This also applies for the other `arrow.BinaryTypes` 

  

I took a heap dump midway through the program and the majority of allocations 
comes from `StringBuilder.Append` which is not GC'd. I approached 16GB of RAM 
before terminating the program. 

  

I was not able to replicate this behavior with just PrimativeTypes. Another 
interesting point, if the records are created but never written with pqarrow 
memory does not grow. In the below program commenting out `w.Write(rec)` will 
not cause memory issues. 

Example program which causes memory to leak: 
{code:java}
package main 

import ( 
   "os" 
   "testing" 

   "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/arrow" 
   "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/arrow/array" 
   "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/arrow/memory" 
   "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/parquet" 
   "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/parquet/compress" 
   "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/parquet/pqarrow" 
) 

func main() { 
   f, _ := os.Create("/tmp/test.parquet") 

   arrowProps := pqarrow.DefaultWriterProps() 
   schema := arrow.NewSchema( 
      []arrow.Field{ 
         {Name: "aString", Type: arrow.BinaryTypes.String}, 
      }, 
      nil, 
   ) 
   w, _ := pqarrow.NewFileWriter(schema, f, 
parquet.NewWriterProperties(parquet.WithCompression(compress.Codecs.Snappy)), 
arrowProps) 

   builder := array.NewRecordBuilder(memory.DefaultAllocator, schema) 
   for i := 1; i < 50000000; i++ { 
      builder.Field(0).(*array.StringBuilder).Append("HelloWorld!") 
      if i%2000000 == 0 { 
         // Write row groups out every 2M times 
         rec := builder.NewRecord() 
         w.Write(rec) 
         rec.Release() 
      } 
   } 
   w.Close() 
}{code}
 



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