On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I complained a couple weeks ago that nodeGatherMerge looked like it > leaked a lot of memory when commanded to rescan. Attached are three > proposed patches that, in combination, demonstrably result in zero > leakage across repeated rescans.
Gosh, thanks for looking into this so deeply. I apologize for all of the bugs. Also, my ego is taking some severe damage here. > But it's going to crash and burn someday. Yeah, ouch. > (With this patch, > there are no callers of shm_mq_get_queue(); should we remove that?) May as well. I can't remember any more why I did shm_mq_detach() that way; I think there was someplace where I thought that the shm_mq_handle might not be available. Maybe I'm misremembering, or perhaps the situation has changed as that code has evolved. > The last patch fixes the one remaining leak I saw after applying the > first two patches, namely that execParallel.c leaks the array palloc'd > by ExecParallelSetupTupleQueues --- just the array storage, not any of > the shm_mq_handles it points to. The given patch just adds a pfree > to ExecParallelFinish, but TBH I find this pretty unsatisfactory. > It seems like a significant modularity violation that execParallel.c > is responsible for creating those shm_mqs but not for cleaning them up. Yeah, the correct division of labor between execParallel.c and nodeGather.c was not entirely clear to me, and I don't pretend that I got that 100% right. > (That would make it more difficult to do the early reader destruction > that nodeGather currently does, but I am not sure we care about that.) I think the only thing that matters here is -- if we know that we're not going to read any more tuples from a worker that might still be generating tuples, it's imperative that we shut it down ASAP. Otherwise, it's just going to keep cranking them out, wasting resources unnecessarily. I think this is different than what you're talking about here, but just wanted to be clear. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers