Fix error cleanup failure caused by 8.4 changes in plpgsql to try to avoid

memory leakage in error recovery.  We were calling FreeExprContext, and
therefore invoking ExprContextCallback callbacks, in both normal and error
exits from subtransactions.  However this isn't very safe, as shown in
recent trouble report from Frank van Vugt, in which releasing a tupledesc
refcount failed.  It's also unnecessary, since the resources that callbacks
might wish to release should be cleaned up by other error recovery mechanisms
(ie the resource owners).  We only really want FreeExprContext to release
memory attached to the exprcontext in the error-exit case.  So, add a bool
parameter to FreeExprContext to tell it not to call the callbacks.

A more general solution would be to pass the isCommit bool parameter on to
the callbacks, so they could do only safe things during error exit.  But
that would make the patch significantly more invasive and possibly break
third-party code that registers ExprContextCallback callbacks.  We might want
to do that later in HEAD, but for now I'll just do what seems reasonable to
back-patch.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c b/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c
index 360ee408586..9411718667f 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c,v 1.159 2009/06/11 14:48:57 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c,v 1.160 2009/07/18 19:15:41 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ int			NIndexTupleProcessed;
 
 
 static bool get_last_attnums(Node *node, ProjectionInfo *projInfo);
-static void ShutdownExprContext(ExprContext *econtext);
+static void ShutdownExprContext(ExprContext *econtext, bool isCommit);
 
 
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ FreeExecutorState(EState *estate)
 		 * XXX: seems there ought to be a faster way to implement this than
 		 * repeated list_delete(), no?
 		 */
-		FreeExprContext((ExprContext *) linitial(estate->es_exprcontexts));
+		FreeExprContext((ExprContext *) linitial(estate->es_exprcontexts),
+						true);
 		/* FreeExprContext removed the list link for us */
 	}
 
@@ -408,16 +409,21 @@ CreateStandaloneExprContext(void)
  * Since we free the temporary context used for expression evaluation,
  * any previously computed pass-by-reference expression result will go away!
  *
+ * If isCommit is false, we are being called in error cleanup, and should
+ * not call callbacks but only release memory.  (It might be better to call
+ * the callbacks and pass the isCommit flag to them, but that would require
+ * more invasive code changes than currently seems justified.)
+ *
  * Note we make no assumption about the caller's memory context.
  * ----------------
  */
 void
-FreeExprContext(ExprContext *econtext)
+FreeExprContext(ExprContext *econtext, bool isCommit)
 {
 	EState	   *estate;
 
 	/* Call any registered callbacks */
-	ShutdownExprContext(econtext);
+	ShutdownExprContext(econtext, isCommit);
 	/* And clean up the memory used */
 	MemoryContextDelete(econtext->ecxt_per_tuple_memory);
 	/* Unlink self from owning EState, if any */
@@ -442,7 +448,7 @@ void
 ReScanExprContext(ExprContext *econtext)
 {
 	/* Call any registered callbacks */
-	ShutdownExprContext(econtext);
+	ShutdownExprContext(econtext, true);
 	/* And clean up the memory used */
 	MemoryContextReset(econtext->ecxt_per_tuple_memory);
 }
@@ -1222,9 +1228,12 @@ UnregisterExprContextCallback(ExprContext *econtext,
  *
  * The callback list is emptied (important in case this is only a rescan
  * reset, and not deletion of the ExprContext).
+ *
+ * If isCommit is false, just clean the callback list but don't call 'em.
+ * (See comment for FreeExprContext.)
  */
 static void
-ShutdownExprContext(ExprContext *econtext)
+ShutdownExprContext(ExprContext *econtext, bool isCommit)
 {
 	ExprContext_CB *ecxt_callback;
 	MemoryContext oldcontext;
@@ -1245,7 +1254,8 @@ ShutdownExprContext(ExprContext *econtext)
 	while ((ecxt_callback = econtext->ecxt_callbacks) != NULL)
 	{
 		econtext->ecxt_callbacks = ecxt_callback->next;
-		(*ecxt_callback->function) (ecxt_callback->arg);
+		if (isCommit)
+			(*ecxt_callback->function) (ecxt_callback->arg);
 		pfree(ecxt_callback);
 	}