Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> To implement this I propose keeping track of four additional pointers in
> SnapshotData: "next" and "prev" in the registered list, and "next" and
> "prev" in the active stack.
FWIW this does not work as proposed because one snapshot can be stored
as active more than once simultaneously.
Back to the drawing board on memory management -- so far I have merged
the two snapshot patches I had (RegisterSnapshot and ActiveSnapshot),
and the result looks reasonably good.
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