Re: portals vs. memory contexts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: portals vs. memory contexts
Date
Msg-id 199903230427.XAA03271@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: portals vs. memory contexts  (Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>)
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > I notice you used portals for vacuum, rather than a separate memory
> > context.  Can I ask why?
> 
> Not me really -:)
>     /*
>      * Create a portal for safe memory across transctions.  We need to
> 
> Vacuum uses separate transaction for each of relations to be
> vacuumed. VACPNAME is special portal name that is not cleaned
> at commit/abort.
> 
> > 
> > I am considering creating an expression portal or memory context to
> > prevent the memory leaks from the utils/adt functions.
> 
> Will you try to fix problems with WHERE a = lower(b) ?

Yes, this will fix that too.

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