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От daidewei@highgo.com
Тема Re: Re: a plpgsql bug
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Msg-id 202309201434055495623@highgo.com
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Ответ на a plpgsql bug  ("daidewei@highgo.com" <daidewei@highgo.com>)
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I find another example which doesn't change search_path,but use function 'SECURITY DEFINER'

1 create a user
./psql -dpostgres 
create user test_user;
grant all on database postgres to test_user;

2 use the new user to logon and create function
./psql -dpostgres -U test_user

create schema test_user;

create or replace function test_user.test_m(id integer) returns integer as
$$
declare
  var2 integer := 1;
begin
  if id % 4 = 1 then
     return var2 + 2;
  elseif id % 4 = 2 then
     return var2 + 3;
  elseif id % 4 = 3 then
     return var2 + 4;
  else
     return var2;
  end if;
end; $$ language plpgsql;

create or replace function test_user.test_f(id integer) returns integer SECURITY DEFINER as
$$
declare
  var1 integer := 1;
begin
   var1 := test_user.test_m(23);
   return var1;
end; $$ language plpgsql;

3 execute
./psql -dpostgres

do $$
declare
  var1 integer;
begin
  for id in 1 .. 10000000 LOOP
    var1 = test_user.test_m(id);
    var1 = test_user.test_f(id);
  end loop;
end; $$ language plpgsql;
daidewei@highgo.com
 
From: Tom Lane
Date: 2023-09-20 00:12
Subject: Re: a plpgsql bug
"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 11:46 PM daidewei@highgo.com <daidewei@highgo.com>
> wrote:
>> I found a problem in plpgsql. When there is a large loop in plpgsql,
>> it is found that the change of search_path will cause memory exhaustion and
>> thus disconnect the connection.
 
> It is impossible to prevent queries from exhausting memory so the fact that
> this one does isn't an indication of a bug on its own.  I'm having trouble
> imagining a reasonable use case for this pattern of changing search_path
> frequently in a loop within a single execution of a function.  That said,
> I'm not in a position to judge how easy or difficult an improvement in this
> area may be.
 
I poked into this a bit with valgrind.  It seems that the problem
is that the changes to search_path thrash the "simple expression"
mechanism in plpgsql, such that it has to re-plan the various
expressions in the called function each time through.  It's good about
tracking the actual cached plans and not leaking those, but what is
getting leaked into transaction-lifespan memory is the data structures
made by
 
        expr->expr_simple_state =
            ExecInitExprWithParams(expr->expr_simple_expr,
                                   econtext->ecxt_param_list_info);
 
We could conceivably reclaim that data if we were willing to set up
yet another per-expression memory context to hold it.  That seems
like rather a high overhead though.
 
The given test case is obviously a bit artificial, but I think it
may be a simplification of fairly plausible use-cases.  The triggering
condition is that the same textual expression in a plpgsql function
gets executed repeatedly with different search_path settings, which
doesn't seem that unreasonable.
 
Perhaps another approach could be to assume that only a small number
of distinct search_path settings will be used in any one transaction,
and cache a separate plan and estate for each one.  That would have
the nice side-effect of avoiding the replanning overhead, but then
we'd have to figure out how to manage the cache and keep it from
blowing out.
 
regards, tom lane
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