Re: Rethinking MemoryContext creation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rethinking MemoryContext creation
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Msg-id 16100.1513013901@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Rethinking MemoryContext creation  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 11 December 2017 at 16:27, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> For a *very* large majority of the callers of AllocSetContextCreate,
>> the context name is a simple C string constant, so we could just store
>> the pointer to it and save the space and cycles required to copy it.

> Why have the string at all in that case?

Try reading a MemoryContextStats dump without it ...

            regards, tom lane


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