On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:51 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Here's a draft patch for this.  There are several places that are
> directly using DecrTupleDescRefCount after lookup_rowtype_tupdesc
> or equivalent, which'd now be forbidden.  I think they are all safe
> given the assumption that the typcache's tupdescs for named composites
> are refcounted.  (The calls in expandedrecord.c could be working
> with RECORD, but those code paths just checked that the tupdesc
> is refcounted.)  So there's no actual bug here, and no reason to
> back-patch, but this seems like a good idea to decouple callers
> a bit more from typcache's internal logic.  None of these call
> sites are so performance-critical that one extra test will hurt.

LGTM.


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