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    Avoid leaking memory while evaluating arguments for a table function. · 45b0f357
    Tom Lane authored
    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.
    45b0f357
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