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We only need a tuplestore if we're actually going to accumulate multiple result tuples. Obviously then we don't need one for non-set- returning functions; but even a SRF doesn't need one if we decide to use "lazyEval" (one row at a time) mode. In these cases, it's sufficient to use the junkfilter's result slot to hold the single row that's due to be returned. We just need to "materialize" that slot to ensure it holds onto the data past shutdown of the sub-executor. The original intent of this patch was partially to save a few cycles (by not putting tuples into a tuplestore only to pull them back out immediately), but mostly to ensure that we don't use a tuplestore in non-set-returning functions. That's because I had concerns about whether a tuplestore is safe to keep across queries, which was possible for functions invoked via long-lived FmgrInfos such as those kept in the typcache. There are no cases where SRFs are called that way, so getting rid of the tuplestore in non-SRFs should make things safer. However, it emerges that running fmgr_sql in a short-lived context (as 595d1efed made it do) makes the existing coding unsafe anyway: we can end up with a long-lived TupleTableSlot holding a freeable reference to a short-lived tuple, resulting in a double-free crash. Not trying to pull tuples out of the tuplestore using that slot dodges the problem, so I'm going to commit this now rather than invent a band-aid solution for v18. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2443532.1744919968@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9f975803-1a1c-4f21-b987-f572e110e860@gmail.com
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