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Commit b568d383 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Avoid leaking memory while evaluating arguments for a table function.

ExecMakeTableFunctionResult evaluated the arguments for a function-in-FROM
in the query-lifespan memory context.  This is insignificant in simple
cases where the function relation is scanned only once; but if the function
is in a sub-SELECT or is on the inside of a nested loop, any memory
consumed during argument evaluation can add up quickly.  (The potential for
trouble here had been foreseen long ago, per existing comments; but we'd
not previously seen a complaint from the field about it.)  To fix, create
an additional temporary context just for this purpose.

Per an example from MauMau.  Back-patch to all active branches.
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