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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c b/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c
index a6b1f194ae4..4548fe9a17d 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c
@@ -55,13 +55,15 @@
* in either case its value need not be preserved. See int8inc() for an
* example. Notice that advance_transition_function() is coded to avoid a
* data copy step when the previous transition value pointer is returned.
+ * Also, some transition functions make use of the aggcontext to store
+ * working state.
*
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c,v 1.167 2009/06/17 16:05:34 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c,v 1.168 2009/07/23 20:45:27 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -273,18 +275,6 @@ initialize_aggregates(AggState *aggstate,
}
/*
- * If we are reinitializing after a group boundary, we have to free
- * any prior transValue to avoid memory leakage. We must check not
- * only the isnull flag but whether the pointer is NULL; since
- * pergroupstate is initialized with palloc0, the initial condition
- * has isnull = 0 and null pointer.
- */
- if (!peraggstate->transtypeByVal &&
- !pergroupstate->transValueIsNull &&
- DatumGetPointer(pergroupstate->transValue) != NULL)
- pfree(DatumGetPointer(pergroupstate->transValue));
-
- /*
* (Re)set transValue to the initial value.
*
* Note that when the initial value is pass-by-ref, we must copy it
@@ -911,10 +901,15 @@ agg_retrieve_direct(AggState *aggstate)
}
/*
- * Clear the per-output-tuple context for each group
+ * Clear the per-output-tuple context for each group, as well as
+ * aggcontext (which contains any pass-by-ref transvalues of the
+ * old group). We also clear any child contexts of the aggcontext;
+ * some aggregate functions store working state in such contexts.
*/
ResetExprContext(econtext);
+ MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(aggstate->aggcontext);
+
/*
* Initialize working state for a new input tuple group
*/
@@ -1234,7 +1229,8 @@ ExecInitAgg(Agg *node, EState *estate, int eflags)
* structures and transition values. NOTE: the details of what is stored
* in aggcontext and what is stored in the regular per-query memory
* context are driven by a simple decision: we want to reset the
- * aggcontext in ExecReScanAgg to recover no-longer-wanted space.
+ * aggcontext at group boundaries (if not hashing) and in ExecReScanAgg
+ * to recover no-longer-wanted space.
*/
aggstate->aggcontext =
AllocSetContextCreate(CurrentMemoryContext,