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The pgoutput module caches publication names in a list and frees it upon
invalidation. However, the code forgot to free the actual publication
names within the list elements, as publication names are pstrdup()'d in
GetPublication(). This would cause memory to leak in
CacheMemoryContext, bloating it over time as this context is not
cleaned.
This is a problem for WAL senders running for a long time, as an
accumulation of invalidation requests would bloat its cache memory
usage. A second case, where this leak is easier to see, involves a
backend calling SQL functions like pg_logical_slot_{get,peek}_changes()
which create a new decoding context with each execution. More
publications create more bloat.
To address this, this commit adds a new memory context within the
logical decoding context and resets it each time the publication names
cache is invalidated, based on a suggestion from Amit Kapila. This
ensures that the lifespan of the publication names aligns with that of
the logical decoding context.
Contrary to the HEAD-only commit f0c569d71515 that has changed
PGOutputData to track this new child memory context, the context is
tracked with a static variable whose state is reset with a MemoryContext
reset callback attached to PGOutputData->context, so as ABI
compatibility is preserved in stable branches. This approach is based
on an suggestion from Amit Kapila.
Analyzed-by: Michael Paquier, Jeff Davis
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Euler Taveira, Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z0khf9EVMVLOc_YY@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 13
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