Hi,
On 2022-09-05 17:32:20 +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> The rationale of creating them at pgstat_attach_shmem is that anyway once
> pgstat_attach_shmem is called, the process fainally creates the contexts at
> the end of the process, and (I think) it's simpler that we don't do if()
> check at every pgstat_get_entry_ref() call.
But that's not true, as pointed out here:
https://postgr.es/m/20220808192020.nc556tlgcp66fdgw%40awork3.anarazel.de
Nor does it make sense to reserve memory for the entire lifetime of a process
just because we might need it for a split second at the end.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
