Prevent intratransaction memory leak when a subtransaction is aborted

in the middle of executing a SPI query.  This doesn't entirely fix the
problem of memory leakage in plpgsql exception handling, but it should
get rid of the lion's share of leakage.

diff --git a/src/backend/executor/spi.c b/src/backend/executor/spi.c
index 5410c36..d4fa794 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/executor/spi.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/spi.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/spi.c,v 1.164 2006/10/04 00:29:53 momjian Exp $
+ *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/spi.c,v 1.165 2006/11/21 22:35:29 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -254,6 +254,19 @@ AtEOSubXact_SPI(bool isCommit, SubTransactionId mySubid)
                                (errcode(ERRCODE_WARNING),
                                 errmsg("subtransaction left non-empty SPI stack"),
                                 errhint("Check for missing \"SPI_finish\" calls.")));
+
+       /*
+        * If we are aborting a subtransaction and there is an open SPI context
+        * surrounding the subxact, clean up to prevent memory leakage.
+        */
+       if (_SPI_current && !isCommit)
+       {
+               /* free Executor memory the same as _SPI_end_call would do */
+               MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(_SPI_current->execCxt);
+               /* throw away any partially created tuple-table */
+               SPI_freetuptable(_SPI_current->tuptable);
+               _SPI_current->tuptable = NULL;
+       }
 }