Re: Question about the MemoryContext - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gevik Babakhani
Subject Re: Question about the MemoryContext
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Msg-id 1145745797.3882.0.camel@voyager.truesoftware.net
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In response to Re: Question about the MemoryContext  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thank you :)

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 18:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl> writes:
> > Could someone please explain the MemoryContext switching. For example
> > MemoryContextSwitchTo function. How does this work?
> 
> src/backend/utils/mmgr/README might help.  It's somewhat pointed at
> people who've already been hacking the backend, but I think it will
> give you the idea.
> 
> The basic point is that palloc() allocates memory in whichever context
> was last selected as CurrentMemoryContext by MemoryContextSwitchTo.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
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