Hi,
On 2023-06-13 16:55:12 +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> At Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:55:36 +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@garret.ru> wrote in
> > Postgres backend is "thick" not because of large number of local
> > variables.
> > It is because of local caches: catalog cache, relation cache, prepared
> > statements cache,...
> > If they are not rewritten, then backend still may consume a lot of
> > memory even if it will be thread rather then process.
> > But threads simplify development of global caches, although it can be
> > done with DSM.
>
> With the process model, that local stuff are flushed out upon
> reconnection. If we switch to the thread model, we will need an
> expiration mechanism for those stuff.
Isn't that just doing something like MemoryContextDelete(TopMemoryContext) at
the end of proc_exit() (or it's thread equivalent)?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
