Hi,

Currently waitonlock_error_callback() allocates memory in ErrorContext
and doesn't explicitly free it. Valgrind is not happy about it and
generates multiple reports like this:

```
2,048 bytes in 2 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1,097 of 1,165
   at 0x999539: palloc (mcxt.c:1389)
   by 0x9DCBFD: initStringInfoInternal (stringinfo.c:45)
   by 0x9DCC9D: initStringInfo (stringinfo.c:99)
   by 0x73A807: waitonlock_error_callback (lock.c:2027)
   by 0x94E1DE: errfinish (elog.c:510)
   by 0x750394: ProcSleep (proc.c:1614)
   by 0x73A720: WaitOnLock (lock.c:1979)
   by 0x7391C2: LockAcquireExtended (lock.c:1221)
   by 0x738360: LockAcquire (lock.c:814)
   by 0x741064: VirtualXactLock (lock.c:4844)
   by 0x3E9D93: WaitForOlderSnapshots (indexcmds.c:492)
   by 0x3F155B: ReindexRelationConcurrently (indexcmds.c:4216)
```

I propose adding pfree().

waitonlock_error_callback() was added in:

```
commit f727b63e810724c7187f38b2580b2915bdbc3c9c
Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Aug 29 15:43:34 2025 -0400

    Provide error context when an error is thrown within WaitOnLock().
```

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
From e98412e7b1133ece8c7003ee48c598fd27c8763f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:06:35 +0300
Subject: [PATCH v1] Free memory allocated by waitonlock_error_callback()

---
 src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c
index 4cc7f645c31..6c347eccc01 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c
@@ -2030,6 +2030,8 @@ waitonlock_error_callback(void *arg)
 	errcontext("waiting for %s on %s",
 			   GetLockmodeName(tag->locktag_lockmethodid, mode),
 			   locktagbuf.data);
+
+	pfree(locktagbuf.data);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.43.0

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