Hi,
On 2018-03-07 08:01:38 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I wonder if this is just because we refuse to acknowledge the notion of
> a connection pooler. If we did, and the pooler told us "here, this
> session is being given back to us by the application, we'll keep it
> around until the next app comes along", could we clean the oldest
> inactive cache entries at that point? Currently they use DISCARD for
> that. Though this does nothing to fix hypothetical cache bloat for
> pg_dump in bug #14936.
I'm not seeing how this solves anything? You don't want to throw all
caches away, therefore you need a target size. Then there's also the
case of the cache being too large in a single "session".
Greetings,
Andres Freund
