Bug#13025132 - PARTITIONS USE TOO MUCH MEMORY

The buffer for the current read row from each partition
(m_ordered_rec_buffer) used for sorted reads was
allocated on open and freed when the ha_partition handler
was closed or destroyed.

For tables with many partitions and big records this could
take up too much valuable memory.

Solution is to only allocate the memory when it is needed
and free it when nolonger needed. I.e. allocate it in
index_init and free it in index_end (and to handle failures
also free it on reset, close etc.)

Also only allocating needed memory, according to
partitioning pruning.

Manually tested that it does not use as much memory and
releases it after queries.

sql/ha_partition.cc

@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ ha_partition::~ha_partition()
     for (i= 0; i < m_tot_parts; i++)
       delete m_file[i];
   }
-  my_free((char*) m_ordered_rec_buffer, MYF(MY_ALLOW_ZERO_PTR));
+  destroy_record_priority_queue();
 
   clear_handler_file();
   DBUG_VOID_RETURN;
@@ -2594,7 +2594,6 @@ int ha_partition::open(const char *name, int mode, uint test_if_locked)
 {
   char *name_buffer_ptr;
   int error= HA_ERR_INITIALIZATION;
-  uint alloc_len;
   handler **file;
   char name_buff[FN_REFLEN];
   bool is_not_tmp_table= (table_share->tmp_table == NO_TMP_TABLE);
@@ -2612,32 +2611,6 @@ int ha_partition::open(const char *name, int mode, uint test_if_locked)
   m_start_key.length= 0;
   m_rec0= table->record[0];
   m_rec_length= table_share->reclength;
-  alloc_len= m_tot_parts * (m_rec_length + PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS);
-  alloc_len+= table_share->max_key_length;
-  if (!m_ordered_rec_buffer)
-  {
-    if (!(m_ordered_rec_buffer= (uchar*)my_malloc(alloc_len, MYF(MY_WME))))
-    {
-      DBUG_RETURN(error);
-    }
-    {
-      /*
-        We set-up one record per partition and each record has 2 bytes in
-        front where the partition id is written. This is used by ordered
-        index_read.
-        We also set-up a reference to the first record for temporary use in
-        setting up the scan.
-      */
-      char *ptr= (char*)m_ordered_rec_buffer;
-      uint i= 0;
-      do
-      {
-        int2store(ptr, i);
-        ptr+= m_rec_length + PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS;
-      } while (++i < m_tot_parts);
-      m_start_key.key= (const uchar*)ptr;
-    }
-  }
 
   /* Initialize the bitmap we use to minimize ha_start_bulk_insert calls */
   if (bitmap_init(&m_bulk_insert_started, NULL, m_tot_parts + 1, FALSE))
@@ -2657,7 +2630,7 @@ int ha_partition::open(const char *name, int mode, uint test_if_locked)
 
   if (m_is_clone_of)
   {
-    uint i;
+    uint i, alloc_len;
     DBUG_ASSERT(m_clone_mem_root);
     /* Allocate an array of handler pointers for the partitions handlers. */
     alloc_len= (m_tot_parts + 1) * sizeof(handler*);
@@ -2733,12 +2706,6 @@ int ha_partition::open(const char *name, int mode, uint test_if_locked)
     being opened once.
   */
   clear_handler_file();
-  /*
-    Initialize priority queue, initialized to reading forward.
-  */
-  if ((error= init_queue(&m_queue, m_tot_parts, (uint) PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS,
-                         0, key_rec_cmp, (void*)this)))
-    goto err_handler;
 
   /*
     Use table_share->ha_data to share auto_increment_value among all handlers
@@ -2861,7 +2828,7 @@ int ha_partition::close(void)
   DBUG_ENTER("ha_partition::close");
 
   DBUG_ASSERT(table->s == table_share);
-  delete_queue(&m_queue);
+  destroy_record_priority_queue();
   bitmap_free(&m_bulk_insert_started);
   if (!m_is_clone_of)
     bitmap_free(&(m_part_info->used_partitions));
@@ -4073,6 +4040,87 @@ int ha_partition::rnd_pos_by_record(uchar *record)
     subset of the partitions are used, then only use those partitions.
 */
 
+
+/**
+  Setup the ordered record buffer and the priority queue.
+*/
+
+bool ha_partition::init_record_priority_queue()
+{
+  DBUG_ENTER("ha_partition::init_record_priority_queue");
+  DBUG_ASSERT(!m_ordered_rec_buffer);
+  /*
+    Initialize the ordered record buffer.
+  */
+  if (!m_ordered_rec_buffer)
+  {
+    uint map_len, alloc_len;
+    uint used_parts= 0;
+    /* Allocate an array for mapping used partitions to their record buffer. */
+    map_len= m_tot_parts * PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS;
+    alloc_len= map_len;
+    /* Allocate record buffer for each used partition. */
+    alloc_len+= bitmap_bits_set(&m_part_info->used_partitions) *
+                  (m_rec_length + PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS);
+    /* Allocate a key for temporary use when setting up the scan. */
+    alloc_len+= table_share->max_key_length;
+
+    if (!(m_ordered_rec_buffer= (uchar*)my_malloc(alloc_len, MYF(MY_WME))))
+      DBUG_RETURN(true);
+
+    /*
+      We set-up one record per partition and each record has 2 bytes in
+      front where the partition id is written. This is used by ordered
+      index_read.
+      We also set-up a reference to the first record for temporary use in
+      setting up the scan.
+      No need to initialize the full map, it should only be used partitions
+      that will be read, so it is better to not set them to find possible
+      bugs through valgrind.
+    */
+    uint16 *map= (uint16*) m_ordered_rec_buffer;
+    char *ptr= (char*) m_ordered_rec_buffer + map_len;
+    uint16 i= 0;
+    do
+    {
+      if (bitmap_is_set(&m_part_info->used_partitions, i))
+      {
+        map[i]= used_parts++;
+        int2store(ptr, i);
+        ptr+= m_rec_length + PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS;
+      }
+    } while (++i < m_tot_parts);
+    m_start_key.key= (const uchar*)ptr;
+    /* Initialize priority queue, initialized to reading forward. */
+    if (init_queue(&m_queue, used_parts, (uint) PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS,
+                   0, key_rec_cmp, (void*)m_curr_key_info))
+    {
+      my_free(m_ordered_rec_buffer, MYF(0));
+      m_ordered_rec_buffer= NULL;
+      DBUG_RETURN(true);
+    }
+  }
+  DBUG_RETURN(false);
+}
+
+
+/**
+  Destroy the ordered record buffer and the priority queue.
+*/
+
+void ha_partition::destroy_record_priority_queue()
+{
+  DBUG_ENTER("ha_partition::destroy_record_priority_queue");
+  if (m_ordered_rec_buffer)
+  {
+    delete_queue(&m_queue);
+    my_free(m_ordered_rec_buffer, MYF(0));
+    m_ordered_rec_buffer= NULL;
+  }
+  DBUG_VOID_RETURN;
+}
+
+
 /*
   Initialize handler before start of index scan
 
@@ -4114,6 +4162,10 @@ int ha_partition::index_init(uint inx, bool sorted)
   }
   else
     m_curr_key_info[1]= NULL;
+
+  if (init_record_priority_queue())
+    DBUG_RETURN(HA_ERR_OUT_OF_MEM);
+
   /*
     Some handlers only read fields as specified by the bitmap for the
     read set. For partitioned handlers we always require that the
@@ -4188,11 +4240,11 @@ int ha_partition::index_end()
   do
   {
     int tmp;
-    /* TODO RONM: Change to index_end() when code is stable */
     if (bitmap_is_set(&(m_part_info->used_partitions), (file - m_file)))
       if ((tmp= (*file)->ha_index_end()))
         error= tmp;
   } while (*(++file));
+  destroy_record_priority_queue();
   DBUG_RETURN(error);
 }
 

sql/ha_partition.h

@@ -517,6 +517,8 @@ class ha_partition :public handler
   virtual int read_range_next();
 
 private:
+  bool init_record_priority_queue();
+  void destroy_record_priority_queue();
   int common_index_read(uchar * buf, bool have_start_key);
   int common_first_last(uchar * buf);
   int partition_scan_set_up(uchar * buf, bool idx_read_flag);
@@ -524,8 +526,15 @@ class ha_partition :public handler
   int handle_unordered_scan_next_partition(uchar * buf);
   uchar *queue_buf(uint part_id)
     {
-      return (m_ordered_rec_buffer +
-              (part_id * (m_rec_length + PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS)));
+      uint16 *part_id_map= (uint16*) m_ordered_rec_buffer;
+      /* Offset to the partition's record buffer in number of partitions. */
+      uint offset= part_id_map[part_id];
+      /*
+        Return the pointer to the partition's record buffer.
+        First skip the partition id map, and then add the offset.
+      */
+      return (m_ordered_rec_buffer + m_tot_parts * PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS +
+              (offset * (m_rec_length + PARTITION_BYTES_IN_POS)));
     }
   uchar *rec_buf(uint part_id)
     {