Avoid leaking memory during large-scale REASSIGN OWNED BY operations.
The various ALTER OWNER routines tend to leak memory in CurrentMemoryContext. That's not a problem when they're only called once per command; but in this usage where we might be touching many objects, it can amount to a serious memory leak. Fix that by running each call in a short-lived context. (DROP OWNED BY likely has a similar issue, except that you'll probably run out of lock table space before noticing. REASSIGN is worth fixing since for most non-table object types, it won't take any lock.) Back-patch to all supported branches. Unfortunately, in the back branches this helps to only a limited extent, since the sinval message queue bloats quite a lot in this usage before commit 3aafc030a, consuming memory more or less comparable to what's actually leaked. Still, it's clearly a leak with a simple fix, so we might as well fix it. Justin Pryzby, per report from Guillaume Lelarge Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAECtzeW2DAoioEGBRjR=CzHP6TdL=yosGku8qZxfX9hhtrBB0Q@mail.gmail.com
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