On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 9:39 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 02:19:29PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > During VACUUM FULL reform_and_rewrite_tuple() detoasts the old value if
> > it was compressed with a different method, while in
> > TopTransactionContext. There's nothing freeing that until
> > TopTransactionContext ends - obviously not great for a large relation
> > being VACUUM FULLed.
>
> Yeah, that's not good. The confusion comes from the fact that we'd
> just overwrite the values without freeing them out if recompressed, so
> something like the attached would be fine?
/* Be sure to null out any dropped columns */
for (i = 0; i < newTupDesc->natts; i++)
{
+ tup_values[i] = values[i];
+
if (TupleDescAttr(newTupDesc, i)->attisdropped)
isnull[i] = true;
I think you don't need to initialize tup_values[i] with the
values[i];, other than that looks fine to me.
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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
