On Fri, May 8, 2026, 14:10 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:

I don’t think this is a serious leak. In this path, pstate and attnamelist are allocated in CurTransactionContext, and the transaction is committed immediately after copy_table() finishes, so that memory is reclaimed at transaction end. Explicitly freeing them would be mostly for code readability, not to fix a memory leak. So, I am okay to not free them.

I agree that no additional memory cleanup is needed here.


While tracing the code, I noticed another issue that is probably more worth addressing. copy_table() currently does:
```
    copybuf = makeStringInfo();
```

But copybuf is only used by copy_read_data(), and there it's really just acting as a small state holder for data, len, and cursor, rather than as a normal growable StringInfo. That means we do not need to allocate a StringInfo object or its backing buffer at all.

It would be cleaner to use a plain StringInfoData and simply reinitialize or zero it in copy_table(). See the attached diff for the proposed change.

David Rowley has made several cleanup changes in this area to prefer stack-allocated StringInfoData, for example a63bbc811d41b3567eb37fe2636e660a852dbbf2. This change seems consistent with that direction.

Thanks for the suggestion.

The copybuf change looks worthwhile, but perhaps it’s better discussed in a separate thread.

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Shinya Kato