Re: Tuplestore should remember the memory context it's created in - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Tuplestore should remember the memory context it's created in
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Msg-id 4B31E1D7.2020408@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Tuplestore should remember the memory context it's created in  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> But we don't use tuplesort to return tuples from functions, so it's not
>> broken in a user-visible way. Unless you can think of another scenario
>> like that.
> 
> (1) create a cursor whose plan involves a sort that will spill to disk
> (2) enter subtransaction
> (3) fetch from cursor (causing the sort to actually happen)
> (4) leave subtransaction
> (5) fetch some more from cursor
> 
> Too busy to develop a test case right now, but ISTM it ought to fail.

That was exactly the case that we originally fixed, that caused this
PL/pgSQL issue. It works because cursors run within the portal
ResourceOwner.

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


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