Fix double-free in pg_stat_autovacuum_scores.
Presently, relation_needs_vacanalyze() unconditionally frees the
pgstat entry returned by pgstat_fetch_stat_tabentry_ext(). This
behavior was first added by commit
02502c1bca to avoid memory
leakage in autovacuum. While this is fine for autovacuum since it
forces stats_fetch_consistency to "none", it is not okay for other
callers that use "cache" or "snapshot". This manifests as a
double-free when pg_stat_autovacuum_scores is called multiple times
in the same transaction.
To fix, add a "bool *may_free" parameter to
pgstat_fetch_stat_tabentry_ext() that returns whether it is safe
for the caller to explicitly pfree() the result. If a caller would
rather leave it to the memory context machinery to free the result,
it can pass NULL as the "may_free" argument (or just ignore its
value).
Oversight in commit
87f61f0c82.
Reported-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Suggested-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
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