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Subject: [Pljava-dev] TupleDesc reference leak
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:52:31 +0300
Message-ID: <4FE2C4AF.4000700@enterprisedb.com> (raw)

Hi,

A customer ran into the issue reported through the bug tracker, 
#1010962: 
http://pgfoundry.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=334&aid=1010962&group_id=1000038. 
If a PL/Java function takes a ResultSet as argument, you get warnings like:

WARNING:  TupleDesc reference leak: TupleDesc 124e120 (139824,-1) still 
referenced

Grepping through the source, there seems to be two places where PL/Java 
gets a reference to a TupleDesc by calling lookup_rowtype_tupdsc(), but 
fails to release it. One is in HeapTupleHeader.c:

> jobject HeapTupleHeader_getTupleDesc(HeapTupleHeader ht)
> {
> 	return TupleDesc_create(
> 		lookup_rowtype_tupdesc(
> 			HeapTupleHeaderGetTypeId(ht),
> 			HeapTupleHeaderGetTypMod(ht)));
> }

This is the one that's leaking in the test case posted in the bug 
tracker. Fortunately, this is easy to fix. TupleDesc_create() creates a 
copy of the tuple descriptor, so we just need to release it after the 
call. Patch attached.

The other is in Type.c, in Type_fromOid function:

> 		if(typeClass != 0)
> 		{
> 			TupleDesc tupleDesc = lookup_rowtype_tupdesc_noerror(typeId, -1, true);
> 			type = (Type)UDT_registerUDT(typeClass, typeId, typeStruct, tupleDesc, false);
> 			JNI_deleteLocalRef(typeClass);
> 			goto finally;
> 		}

I'm not sure what to do about that one.  UDT_registerUDT() puts the 
TupleDesc Reference to a field in the UDT instance it creates. It's not 
clear to me what the lifecycle of that instance is. If we just created a 
copy of the TupleDesc, would we leak memory? Can the UDT object persist 
over transactions, in which case it holds a dangling pointer to the 
TupleDesc?


Anyway, please apply the attached patch, at least.

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com
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