Commit fc22b6623b (generated columns) replaced ExecGetUpdatedCols() with
ExecGetAllUpdatedCols() in a couple places handling UPDATE (triggers and
lock mode). However, ExecGetUpdatedCols() did exec_rt_fetch() while
ExecGetAllUpdatedCols() also allocates memory through bms_union()
without paying attention to the memory context and happened to use the
long-lived ExecutorState, leaking the memory until the end of the query.
The amount of leaked memory is proportional to the number of (updated)
attributes, types of UPDATE triggers, and the number of processed rows
(which for UPDATE ... FROM ... may be much higher than updated rows).
Fixed by switching to the per-tuple context in GetAllUpdatedColumns().
This is fine for all in-core callers, but external callers may need to
copy the result. But we're not aware of any such callers.
Note the issue was introduced by fc22b6623b, but the macros were later
renamed by f50e888990.
Backpatch to 12, where the issue was introduced.
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Jakub Wartak
Backpatch-through: 12
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/222a3442-7f7d-246c-ed9b-a76209d19239@enterprisedb.com
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