[ASTERIXDB-1673] ARecordCaster potential object creation problem

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: *DB - AsterixDB, TYPE - Data Model
• Assignee: Wail Y. Alkowaileet
• Reporter: Wail Y. Alkowaileet
• Created: 04/Oct/16 11:01
• Updated: 13/Oct/16 01:41
• Resolved: 13/Oct/16 01:41

Description

I use ACastVIsitor extensively in my work and I found that on loadRequiredType:
The allocator will keep allocating Pointables (for typetag and fieldNames) which would never be cleared.
I ran an experiment and got more than 6 million objects on a dataset of size 1.5GB.