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Prevent long-term memory leakage in autovacuum launcher.
get_database_list() failed to restore the caller's memory context, instead leaving current context set to TopMemoryContext which is how CommitTransactionCommand() leaves it. The callers both think they are using short-lived contexts, for the express purpose of not having to worry about cleaning up individual allocations. The net effect therefore is that supposedly short-lived allocations could accumulate indefinitely in the launcher's TopMemoryContext. Although this has been broken for a long time, it seems we didn't have any obvious memory leak here until v15's rearrangement of the stats logic. I (tgl) am not entirely convinced that there's no other leak at all, though, and we're surely at risk of adding one in future back-patched fixes. So back-patch to all supported branches, even though this may be only a latent bug in pre-v15. Reid Thompson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/972a4e12b68b0f96db514777a150ceef7dcd2e0f.camel@crunchydata.com
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src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c

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CommitTransactionCommand();
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/* Be sure to restore caller's memory context */
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MemoryContextSwitchTo(resultcxt);
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return dblist;
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