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From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-patches@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re:
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:52:31 -0700
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Joe Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> Here's what I've got so far.  I think there's probably more gold to be
>> mined in terms of reducing runtime memory consumption (I don't like the
>> list_free_deep bit, we should use a context), but functionally it seems
>> complete.
> 
> I checked out memory usage, and it had regressed to about 1.4 GB (from 
> 730 MB as reported yesterday) for 2 million inserts of 2 integers (i.e. 
> with the php script I've been using).
> 
> I know you're not too happy with the attached approach to solving this, 
> but I'm not sure how creating a memory context is going to help. Part of 
> the problem is that the various transformXXX functions sometimes return 
> freshly palloc'd memory, and sometimes return the pointer they are given.
> 
> Anyway, with the attached diff, the 2 million inserts case is back to 
> about 730 MB memory use, and speed is pretty much the same as reported 
> yesterday (i.e both memory use and performance better than mysql with 
> innodb tables).

Of course it also breaks a bunch of regression tests -- I guess that 
just points to the fragility of this approach.

This patch retains the memory consumption savings but doesn't break any 
regression tests...

Joe

Attachments:

multi-insert-memleak.r01.diff (text/x-patch, 2.9K) download ? src/test/regress/sql/insert.sql.new Index: src/backend/parser/analyze.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/analyze.c,v retrieving revision 1.341 diff -c -r1.341 analyze.c *** src/backend/parser/analyze.c 2 Aug 2006 01:59:46 -0000 1.341 --- src/backend/parser/analyze.c 2 Aug 2006 05:48:18 -0000 *************** *** 888,893 **** --- 888,894 ---- icols = lnext(icols); attnos = lnext(attnos); } + list_free(exprlist); return result; } *************** *** 2191,2196 **** --- 2192,2198 ---- for (i = 0; i < sublist_length; i++) { coltypes[i] = select_common_type(coltype_lists[i], "VALUES"); + list_free(coltype_lists[i]); } newExprsLists = NIL; *************** *** 2203,2216 **** foreach(lc2, sublist) { Node *col = (Node *) lfirst(lc2); - col = coerce_to_common_type(pstate, col, coltypes[i], "VALUES"); - newsublist = lappend(newsublist, col); i++; } newExprsLists = lappend(newExprsLists, newsublist); } /* * Generate the VALUES RTE --- 2205,2224 ---- foreach(lc2, sublist) { Node *col = (Node *) lfirst(lc2); + Node *new_col; + + new_col = coerce_to_common_type(pstate, col, coltypes[i], "VALUES"); + newsublist = lappend(newsublist, new_col); + if (new_col != col) + pfree(col); i++; } newExprsLists = lappend(newExprsLists, newsublist); + list_free(sublist); } + list_free(exprsLists); /* * Generate the VALUES RTE Index: src/backend/parser/parse_target.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c,v retrieving revision 1.147 diff -c -r1.147 parse_target.c *** src/backend/parser/parse_target.c 2 Aug 2006 01:59:47 -0000 1.147 --- src/backend/parser/parse_target.c 2 Aug 2006 05:48:18 -0000 *************** *** 172,177 **** --- 172,178 ---- foreach(lc, exprlist) { Node *e = (Node *) lfirst(lc); + Node *p = e; /* * Check for "something.*". Depending on the complexity of the *************** *** 188,193 **** --- 189,195 ---- result = list_concat(result, ExpandColumnRefStar(pstate, cref, false)); + pfree(e); continue; } } *************** *** 203,208 **** --- 205,211 ---- result = list_concat(result, ExpandIndirectionStar(pstate, ind, false)); + pfree(e); continue; } } *************** *** 210,218 **** /* * Not "something.*", so transform as a single expression */ ! result = lappend(result, ! transformExpr(pstate, e)); } return result; } --- 213,224 ---- /* * Not "something.*", so transform as a single expression */ ! p = transformExpr(pstate, e); ! result = lappend(result, p); ! if (e != p) ! pfree(e); } + list_free(exprlist); return result; }

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