Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-10-25 10:18:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think the right way to attack it is to create some way for a Datum
>> value to indicate, at runtime, whether it's a flat value or an in-memory
>> representation.
> That sounds reasonable, and we have most of the infrastructure for it
> since the "indirect toast" thing got in.
Oh really? I hadn't been paying much attention to that, but obviously
I better go back and study it.
> I've thought about refcounting Datums several times, but I always got
> stuck when thinking about how to deal memory context resets and errors.
> Any ideas about that?
Not yet. But it makes no sense to claim that a Datum could have a
reference that's longer-lived than the memory context it's in, so
I'm not sure the context reset case is really a problem.
regards, tom lane
