diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/commands/role.c b/src/backend/distributed/commands/role.c
index 608dc0060..9d1c9d1fe 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/commands/role.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/commands/role.c
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ ExtractEncryptedPassword(Oid roleOid)
 
 	Datum passwordDatum = heap_getattr(tuple, Anum_pg_authid_rolpassword,
 									   pgAuthIdDescription, &isNull);
+	char *passwordCstring = TextDatumGetCString(passwordDatum);
 
 	table_close(pgAuthId, AccessShareLock);
 	ReleaseSysCache(tuple);
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ ExtractEncryptedPassword(Oid roleOid)
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	return pstrdup(TextDatumGetCString(passwordDatum));
+	return pstrdup(passwordCstring);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c b/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c
index 1d4e01a8c..d668ee693 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 #include "utils/datum.h"
 #include "utils/elog.h"
 #include "utils/hsearch.h"
+#include "utils/jsonb.h"
 #if PG_VERSION_NUM >= PG_VERSION_13
 #include "common/hashfn.h"
 #endif
@@ -4883,6 +4884,12 @@ DistNodeMetadata(void)
 							"could not find any entries in pg_dist_metadata")));
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Copy the jsonb result before closing the table
+	 * since that memory can be freed.
+	 */
+	metadata = JsonbPGetDatum(DatumGetJsonbPCopy(metadata));
+
 	systable_endscan(scanDescriptor);
 	table_close(pgDistNodeMetadata, AccessShareLock);
 
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/planner/multi_explain.c b/src/backend/distributed/planner/multi_explain.c
index 4c6370e5a..1d7eb6116 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/planner/multi_explain.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/planner/multi_explain.c
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static void
 ExplainPropertyBytes(const char *qlabel, int64 bytes, ExplainState *es)
 {
 	Datum textDatum = DirectFunctionCall1(pg_size_pretty, Int64GetDatum(bytes));
-	ExplainPropertyText(qlabel, text_to_cstring(DatumGetTextP(textDatum)), es);
+	ExplainPropertyText(qlabel, TextDatumGetCString(textDatum), es);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/test/shard_rebalancer.c b/src/backend/distributed/test/shard_rebalancer.c
index ea770cb6e..2af2756f2 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/test/shard_rebalancer.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/test/shard_rebalancer.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ JsonFieldValueString(Datum jsonDocument, const char *key)
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	char *valueString = text_to_cstring(DatumGetTextP(valueTextDatum));
+	char *valueString = TextDatumGetCString(valueTextDatum);
 	return valueString;
 }