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Tom Lane d062245b5b Improve memory management for PL/Tcl functions.
Formerly, the memory used to represent a PL/Tcl function was allocated with
malloc() or in TopMemoryContext, and we'd leak it all if the function got
redefined during the session.  Instead, create a per-function context and
keep everything in or under that context.  Add a reference-counting
mechanism (like the one plpgsql has long had) so that we can safely clean
up an old function definition, either immediately if it's not being
executed or at the end of the outermost execution.

Currently, we only detect that a cached function is obsolete when we next
attempt to call that function.  So this covers the updated-definition case
but leaves cruft around after DROP FUNCTION.  It's not clear whether it's
worth installing a syscache invalidation callback to watch for drops;
none of the other PLs do, so for now we won't do it here either.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane

Discussion: <CAB7nPqSOyAsHC6jL24J1B+oK3p=yyNoFU0Vs_B6fd2kdd5g5WQ@mail.gmail.com>
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