RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY causes a measurable slowdown. Macos is, by far, the
most expensive platform for CI, therefore it doesn't make sense to run such a
test there.
Ubsan and asan on linux should detect most of the the cases of uninitialized
memory, so it doesn't really seem worth using -DRANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY in
another instance type.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230808021541.7lbzdefvma7qmn3w@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 16-, where 89d16b635 added the use of -DRANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY
pg_logical_emit_message(false, '_', repeat('x', 1069547465)) failed with
self-contradictory message "WAL record would be 1069547520 bytes (of
maximum 1069547520 bytes)". There's no particular benefit from allowing
or denying one byte in either direction; XLogRecordMaxSize could rise a
few megabytes without trouble. Hence, this is just for cleanliness.
Back-patch to v16, where this check first appeared.
The fix itself is fine, but the test revealed other problems related
to parallel query that are not easily fixable. Remove the test for
now to fix the buildfarm.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/88825.1691665432@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 11
Commit 19d8e2308b changed the list of set-of-columns that can be
returned by RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap, but didn't update its
"documentation". That was pretty hard to read already, so rewrite to
make it more comprehensible, adding the missing values while at it.
Backpatch to 16, like that commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230809091155.7c7f3gttjk3dj4ze@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Substituting such values in extension scripts facilitated SQL injection
when @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ appeared inside a
quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). No bundled extension was
vulnerable. Vulnerable uses do appear in a documentation example and in
non-bundled extensions. Hence, the attack prerequisite was an
administrator having installed files of a vulnerable, trusted,
non-bundled extension. Subject to that prerequisite, this enabled an
attacker having database-level CREATE privilege to execute arbitrary
code as the bootstrap superuser. By blocking this attack in the core
server, there's no need to modify individual extensions. Back-patch to
v11 (all supported versions).
Reported by Micah Gate, Valerie Woolard, Tim Carey-Smith, and Christoph
Berg.
Security: CVE-2023-39417
The use of Memoize was already disabled in normal joins when the join
conditions had volatile functions per the code in
match_opclause_to_indexcol(). Ordinarily, the parameterization for the
inner side of a nested loop will be an Index Scan or at least eventually
lead to an index scan (perhaps nested several joins deep). However, for
lateral joins, that's not the case and seq scans can be parameterized
too, so we can't rely on match_opclause_to_indexcol().
Here we explicitly check the parameterization for volatile functions and
don't consider the generation of a Memoize path when such functions
are present.
Author: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49nHFnHbpepLsv_yF3qkpCS4BdB-v8HoJVv8_=Oat0u_w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was introduced
If MERGE executes an UPDATE action on a table with row-level security,
the code incorrectly applied the WITH CHECK clauses from the target
table's INSERT policies to new rows, instead of the clauses from the
table's UPDATE policies. In addition, it failed to check new rows
against the target table's SELECT policies, if SELECT permissions were
required (likely to always be the case).
In addition, if MERGE executes a DO NOTHING action for matched rows,
the code incorrectly applied the USING clauses from the target table's
DELETE policies to existing target tuples. These policies were applied
as checks that would throw an error, if they did not pass.
Fix this, so that a MERGE UPDATE action applies the same RLS policies
as a plain UPDATE query with a WHERE clause, and a DO NOTHING action
does not apply any RLS checks (other than adding clauses from SELECT
policies to the join).
Back-patch to v15, where MERGE was introduced.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Stephen Frost.
Security: CVE-2023-39418
The stats regression test attempts to ensure that Buffer Access Strategy
"reuses" are being counted in pg_stat_io by vacuuming a table which is larger
than the size of the strategy ring. However, when shared buffers are in
sufficiently high demand, another backend could evict one of the blocks in the
strategy ring before the first backend has a chance to reuse the buffer. The
backend using the strategy would then evict another shared buffer and add that
buffer to the strategy ring. This counts as an eviction and not a reuse in
pg_stat_io. Count both evictions and reuses in the test to ensure it does not
fail incorrectly.
Reported-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>,
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bNG27AxG9TdPtwsL6wg8AWbVckjmTL2t1HF=miDQuNtw@mail.gmail.com
Between 6fcda9aba and 1b6f632a3, the pg_strtoint functions became quite
a bit slower in v16, despite efforts in 6b423ec67 to speed these up.
Since the majority of cases for these functions will only contain
base-10 digits, perhaps prefixed by a '-', it makes sense to have a
special case for this and just fall back on the more complex version
which processes hex, octal, binary and underscores if the fast path
version fails to parse the string.
While we're here, update the header comments for these functions to
mention that hex, octal and binary formats along with underscore
separators are now supported.
Author: Andres Freund, David Rowley
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDvDmUQeJtZrau1ovnT_smN940%3DKp6mszNGK3bq9yRN6g%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16, where 6fcda9aba and 1b6f632a3 were added
This was failing for queries which try to get the .type() of a
jpiLikeRegex. For example:
select jsonb_path_query('["string", "string"]',
'($[0] like_regex ".{7}").type()');
Reported-by: Alexander Kozhemyakin
Bug: #18035
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18035-64af5cdcb5adf2a9@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12, where SQL/JSON path was added.
Commit e7cb7ee14, which introduced the infrastructure for FDWs and
custom scan providers to replace joins with scans, failed to add support
handling of pseudoconstant quals assigned to replaced joins in
createplan.c, leading to an incorrect plan without a gating Result node
when postgres_fdw replaced a join with such a qual.
To fix, we could add the support by 1) modifying the ForeignPath and
CustomPath structs to store the list of RestrictInfo nodes to apply to
the join, as in JoinPaths, if they represent foreign and custom scans
replacing a join with a scan, and by 2) modifying create_scan_plan() in
createplan.c to use that list in that case, instead of the
baserestrictinfo list, to get pseudoconstant quals assigned to the join;
but #1 would cause an ABI break. So fix by modifying the infrastructure
to just disallow replacing joins with such quals.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Reported by Nishant Sharma. Patch by me, reviewed by Nishant Sharma and
Richard Guo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADrsxdbcN1vejBaf8a%2BQhrZY5PXL-04mCd4GDu6qm6FigDZd6Q%40mail.gmail.com
Historically, hba.c limited tokens in the authentication configuration
files (pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf) to less than 256 bytes. We have
seen a few reports of this limit causing problems; notably, for
moderately-complex LDAP configurations. Let's get rid of the fixed
limit by using a StringInfo instead of a fixed-size buffer.
This actually takes less code than before, since we can get rid of
a nontrivial error recovery stanza. It's doubtless a hair slower,
but parsing the content of the HBA files should in no way be
performance-critical.
Although this is a pretty straightforward patch, it doesn't seem
worth the risk to back-patch given the small number of complaints
to date. In released branches, we'll just raise MAX_TOKEN to
ameliorate the problem.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1588937.1690221208@sss.pgh.pa.us
9f8377f7a added code to allow COPY FROM insert a column's default value
when the input matches the DEFAULT string specified in the COPY command.
Here we fix some inefficient code which needlessly palloc0'd an array to
store if we should use the default value or input value for the given
column. This array was being palloc0'd and pfree'd once per row. It's
much more efficient to allocate this once and just reset the values once
per row.
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDvDmUQeJtZrau1ovnT_smN940%3DKp6mszNGK3bq9yRN6g%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16, where 9f8377f7a was introduced.
Commit 5764f611e used dclist_delete_from() to remove the proc from the
wait queue. However, since it doesn't clear dist_node's next/prev to
NULL, it could call RemoveFromWaitQueue() twice: when the process
detects a deadlock and then when cleaning up locks on aborting the
transaction. The waiting lock information is cleared in the first
call, so it led to a crash in the second call.
Backpatch to v16, where the change was introduced.
Bug: #18031
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZKy4AdrLEfbqrxGJ%40telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18031-ebe2d08cb405f6cc@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 16
Previously, when selecting an usable index for update/delete for the
REPLICA IDENTITY FULL table, in IsIndexOnlyExpression(), we used to
check if all index fields are not expressions. However, it was not
necessary, because it is enough to check if only the leftmost index
field is not an expression (and references the remote table column)
and this check has already been done by
RemoteRelContainsLeftMostColumnOnIdx().
This commit removes IsIndexOnlyExpression() and
RemoteRelContainsLeftMostColumnOnIdx() and all checks for usable
indexes for REPLICA IDENTITY FULL tables are now performed by
IsIndexUsableForReplicaIdentityFull().
Backpatch this to remain the code consistent.
Reported-by: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Önder Kalacı
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut%2BPsGRE5WSsY0jcLHJEoA17MrbP9yy8FxdjC_ZOAACxbt%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16
We include the message type while displaying an error context in the
apply worker. Now, while retrieving the message type string if the
message type is unknown we throw an error that will hide the original
error. So, instead, we need to simply return the string indicating an
unknown message type.
Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Author: Euler Taveira, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Backpatch-through: 15
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5suAEDW-mBZt_qu4RVxWZ1vL54-L+ci2zreYWebpzxYsA@mail.gmail.com
Due to the bug LimitAdditionalPins() could return 0, violating
LimitAdditionalPins()'s API ("One additional pin is always allowed"). This
could be hit when setting shared_buffers very low and using a fair amount of
concurrency.
This bug was introduced in 31966b151e.
Author: "Anton A. Melnikov" <aamelnikov@inbox.ru>
Reported-by: "Anton A. Melnikov" <aamelnikov@inbox.ru>
Reported-by: Victoria Shepard
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ae46f2fb-5586-3de0-b54b-1bb0f6410ebd@inbox.ru
Backpatch: 16-
Some of the test_decoding test output was extremely wide, because it
deals with massive toasted values, and the aligned mode causes psql to
produce 200kB of whitespace and dashes. Change to unaligned mode
temporarily to avoid that behavior.
Backpatch to 14, where it applies cleanly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230405103953.sxleixp3uz5lazst@alvherre.pgsql
Because PostgreSQL::Version is very nuanced about development version
numbers, the comparison to 16beta2 makes it think that that release is
older than 16, therefore applying a database tweak that doesn't work
there (the comparison is only supposed to match when run on version 15).
As suggested by Andrew Dunstan, fix by having AdjustUpgrade.pm public
methods create a separate PostgreSQL::Version object to use for these
comparisons, that only carries the major version number.
While at it, have the same methods ensure that the objects given are of
the expected type.
Backpatch to 16. This module goes all the way back to 9.2, but there's
probably no need for this fix except where betas still live.
Co-authored-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230719110504.zbu74o54bqqlsufb@alvherre.pgsql
After 3c90dcd03, try_partitionwise_join's child_joinrelids
variable is read only in an Assert, provoking a compiler
warning in non-assert builds. Rearrange code to avoid the
warning and eliminate unnecessary work in the non-assert case.
Per CI testing (via Jeff Davis and Bharath Rupireddy)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ef0de9713e605451f1b60b30648c5ee900b2394c.camel@j-davis.com
Applying add_outer_joins_to_relids() to a child join doesn't actually
work, even if we've built a SpecialJoinInfo specialized to the child,
because that function will also compare the join's relids to elements
of the main join_info_list, which only deal in regular relids not
child relids. This mistake escaped detection by the existing
partitionwise join tests because they didn't test any cases where
add_outer_joins_to_relids() needs to add additional OJ relids (that
is, any cases where join reordering per identity 3 is possible).
Instead, let's apply adjust_child_relids() to the relids of the parent
join. This requires minor code reordering to collect the relevant
AppendRelInfo structures first, but that's work we'd do shortly anyway.
Report and fix by Richard Guo; cosmetic changes by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49NCNbyubZWgci3o=_OTY=snCfAPtMnM-32f3mm-K-Ckw@mail.gmail.com
A CaseTestExpr is currently being put into
JsonValueExpr.formatted_expr as placeholder for the result of
evaluating JsonValueExpr.raw_expr, which in turn is evaluated
separately. Though, there's no need for this indirection if
raw_expr itself can be embedded into formatted_expr and evaluated
as part of evaluating the latter, especially as there is no
special reason to evaluate it separately. So this commit makes it
so. As a result, JsonValueExpr.raw_expr no longer needs to be
evaluated in ExecInterpExpr(), eval_const_exprs_mutator() etc. and
is now only used for displaying the original "unformatted"
expression in ruleutils.c. Comments about and the code manipulating
formatted_expr is updated to mention that it is now always set and
is the expression that gives a JsonValueExpr its runtime value.
While at it, this also removes the function makeCaseTestExpr(),
because the code in makeJsonConstructorExpr() looks more readable
without it IMO and isn't used by anyone else either.
Finally, a note is added in the comment above CaseTestExpr's
definition that JsonConstructorExpr is also using it.
Backpatched to 16 from the development branch to keep the code in
sync across branches.
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com
If both the passed-in plan pointer and plansource->gplan are
NULL, CachedPlanIsSimplyValid would think that the plan pointer
is possibly-valid and try to dereference it. For the one extant
call site in plpgsql, this situation doesn't normally happen
which is why we've not noticed. However, it appears to be possible
if the previous use of the cached plan failed, as per report from
Justin Pryzby. Add an extra check to prevent crashing.
Back-patch to v13 where this code was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZLlV+STFz1l/WhAQ@telsasoft.com
This allows it to pass to coerce_to_specific_type() the actual name
corresponding to the specific JSON_* function expression being
transformed, instead of the currently hardcoded string.
Backpatched to 16 from the development branch to keep the code in
sync across branches.
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHu58pO3cJ7rB6ZLwUztVdG1J66xSjDdjfan5uT5NhESw@mail.gmail.com
With the addition of INHERIT and SET options for role grants,
the historical display of role memberships in \du/\dg is woefully
inadequate. Besides those options, there are pre-existing
shortcomings that you can't see the ADMIN option nor the grantor.
To fix this, remove the "Member of" column from \du/\dg altogether
(making that output usefully narrower), and invent a new meta-command
"\drg" that is specifically for displaying role memberships. It
shows one row for each role granted to the selected role(s), with
the grant options and grantor.
We would not normally back-patch such a feature addition post
feature freeze, but in this case the change is mainly driven by
v16 changes in the server, so it seems appropriate to include it
in v16.
Pavel Luzanov, with bikeshedding and review from a lot of people,
but particularly David Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9be2d0e-a9bc-0a30-492f-a4f68e4f7740@postgrespro.ru
IN and NOT IN work fine on records and arrays, so just say that
they accept "expressions" not "scalar expressions". I think that
that phrasing was meant to say that they don't work on set-returning
expressions, but that's not the common meaning of "scalar".
Revise the description of row-constructor comparisons to make it
perhaps a bit less confusing. (This partially reverts some
dubious wording changes made by commit f56651519.)
Per gripe from Ilya Nenashev. Back-patch to supported branches.
In HEAD and v16, also drop a NOTE about pre-8.2 behavior, which
is hopefully no longer of interest to anybody.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168968062460.632.14303906825812821399@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The "count" argument of SPI_exec() only limits execution when
the query is actually returning rows. This was not the case
before PG 9.0, so this example was correct when written; but
we missed updating it in commit 2ddc600f8. Extend the example
to show the behavior both with and without RETURNING.
While here, improve the commentary and markup for the rest
of the example.
David G. Johnston and Tom Lane, per report from Curt Kolovson.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhYJV6HWtgz_qjx_APfK0PAgLUzY-2vjLuj7i_o=TZF1LAQew@mail.gmail.com
This has been missed in cb0cca1, noticed before buildfarm member koel
has been able to complain while poking at a different patch. Like the
other commit, backpatch all the way down to limit the odds of merge
conflicts.
Backpatch-through: 11
A crash in the middle of a checkpoint with some two-phase state data
already flushed to disk by this checkpoint could cause a follow-up crash
recovery to recover twice the same transaction, once from what has been
found in pg_twophase/ at the beginning of recovery and a second time
when replaying its corresponding record.
This would lead to FATAL failures in the startup process during
recovery, where the same transaction would have a state recovered twice
instead of once:
LOG: recovering prepared transaction 731 from shared memory
LOG: recovering prepared transaction 731 from shared memory
FATAL: lock ExclusiveLock on object 731/0/0 is already held
This issue is fixed by skipping the addition of any 2PC state coming
from a record whose equivalent 2PC state file has already been loaded in
TwoPhaseState at the beginning of recovery by restoreTwoPhaseData(),
which is OK as long as the system has not reached a consistent state.
The timing to get a messed up recovery processing is very racy, and
would very unlikely happen. The thread that has reported the issue has
demonstrated the bug using injection points to force a PANIC in the
middle of a checkpoint.
Issue introduced in 728bd99, so backpatch all the way down.
Reported-by: "suyu.cmj" <mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com>
Author: "suyu.cmj" <mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com>
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/109e6994-b971-48cb-84f6-829646f18b4c.mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com
Backpatch-through: 11
fe-auth.c references CHAR_BIT since commit 3a465cc67, but it
did not #include <limits.h>, which per POSIX is where that
symbol is defined. This escaped notice so far because
(a) on most platforms, <sys/param.h> pulls in <limits.h>,
(b) even if yours doesn't, OpenSSL pulls it in, so compiling
with --with-openssl masks the omission.
Per bug #18026 from Marcel Hofstetter. Back-patch to v16.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18026-d5bb69f79cd16203@postgresql.org
In a61b1f7482, we failed to update transformFromClauseItem() and
buildNSItemFromLists() to set ParseNamespaceItem.p_perminfo causing
it to point to garbage.
Pointed out by Tom Lane.
Reported-by: Farias de Oliveira <matheusfarias519@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3173476.1689286373%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 16
RelationReloadIndexInfo() is a fast-path used for index reloads in the
relation cache, and it has always forgotten about updating
indisreplident, which is something that would happen after an index is
selected for a replica identity. This can lead to incorrect cache
information provided when executing a command in a transaction context
that updates indisreplident.
None of the code paths currently on HEAD that need to check upon
pg_index.indisreplident fetch its value from the relation cache, always
relying on a fresh copy on the syscache. Unfortunately, this may not be
the case of out-of-core code, that could see out-of-date value.
Author: Shruthi Gowda
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAASxf_PBcxax0wW-3gErUyftZ0XrCs3Lrpuhq4-Z3Fak1DoW7Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
indisvalid is switched to true for partitioned indexes when all its
partitions have valid indexes when attaching a new partition, up to the
top-most parent if all its leaves are themselves valid when dealing with
multiple layers of partitions.
The copy of the tuple from pg_index used to switch indisvalid to true
came from the relation cache, which is incorrect. Particularly, in the
case reported by Shruthi Gowda, executing a series of commands in a
single transaction would cause the validation of partitioned indexes to
use an incorrect version of a pg_index tuple, as indexes are reloaded
after an invalidation request with RelationReloadIndexInfo(), a much
faster version than a full index cache rebuild. In this case, the
limited information updated in the cache leads to an incorrect version
of the tuple used. One of the symptoms reported was the following
error, with a replica identity update, for instance:
"ERROR: attempted to update invisible tuple"
This is incorrect since 8b08f7d, so backpatch all the way down.
Reported-by: Shruthi Gowda
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Shruthi Gowda, Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAASxf_PBcxax0wW-3gErUyftZ0XrCs3Lrpuhq4-Z3Fak1DoW7Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
Until now, when DROP DATABASE got interrupted in the wrong moment, the removal
of the pg_database row would also roll back, even though some irreversible
steps have already been taken. E.g. DropDatabaseBuffers() might have thrown
out dirty buffers, or files could have been unlinked. But we continued to
allow connections to such a corrupted database.
To fix this, mark databases invalid with an in-place update, just before
starting to perform irreversible steps. As we can't add a new column in the
back branches, we use pg_database.datconnlimit = -2 for this purpose.
An invalid database cannot be connected to anymore, but can still be
dropped.
Unfortunately we can't easily add output to psql's \l to indicate that some
database is invalid, it doesn't fit in any of the existing columns.
Add tests verifying that a interrupted DROP DATABASE is handled correctly in
the backend and in various tools.
Reported-by: Evgeny Morozov <postgresql3@realityexists.net>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230509004637.cgvmfwrbht7xm7p6@awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230314174521.74jl6ffqsee5mtug@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-, bug present in all supported versions
When vac_truncate_clog() encounters bogus datfrozenxid / datminmxid values, it
returns early. Unfortunately, until now, it did not release
WrapLimitsVacuumLock. If the backend later tries to acquire
WrapLimitsVacuumLock, the session / autovacuum worker hangs in an
uncancellable way. Similarly, other sessions will hang waiting for the
lock. However, if the backend holding the lock exited or errored out for some
reason, the lock was released.
The bug was introduced as a side effect of 566372b3d6.
It is interesting that there are no production reports of this problem. That
is likely due to a mix of bugs leading to bogus values having gotten less
common, process exit releasing locks and instances of hangs being hard to
debug for "normal" users.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230621221208.vhsqgduwfpzwxnpg@awork3.anarazel.de
GiST compress functions (like all GiST opclass functions) are
supposed to be called in short-lived memory contexts, so that
minor memory leaks in them are not of concern, and indeed
explicit pfree's are likely slightly counterproductive.
But this one in g_intbig_compress() is more than
slightly counterproductive, because it's guarded by
"if (in != DatumGetArrayTypeP(entry->key))" which means
that if this test succeeds, we've detoasted the datum twice.
(And to add insult to injury, the extra detoast result is
leaked.) Let's just drop the whole stanza, relying on the
GiST temporary context mechanism to clean up in good time.
The analogous bit in g_int_compress() is
if (r != (ArrayType *) DatumGetPointer(entry->key))
pfree(r);
which doesn't have the gratuitous-detoast problem so
I left it alone. Perhaps there is a case for removing
unnecessary pfree's more widely, but I'm not sure if it's
worth the code churn.
The potential extra decompress seems expensive enough to
justify calling this a (minor) performance bug and
back-patching.
Konstantin Knizhnik, Matthias van de Meent, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wi86=DxErfvf+SCB2UKmU2amKOF60BKuJOX=w-RojRn0A@mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund