Re: Concern about memory management with SRFs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: Concern about memory management with SRFs
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Msg-id 3D6D7D0F.1080307@joeconway.com
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In response to Concern about memory management with SRFs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I thought about that and didn't like it; it may simplify the simple case
> but I think it actively gets in the way of less-simple cases.  For
> example, the FIRSTCALL code might generate some transient structures
> along with ones that it wants to keep.  Also, your recommended
> pseudocode allows the author to write code between the end of the
> FIRSTCALL branch and the PERCALL_SETUP call; that code will not execute
> in a predictable context if we do it this way.
> 
> I'm also not happy with the implied assumption that every call to the
> function executes in the same transient context.  That is true at the
> moment but I'd just as soon not see it as a wired-in assumption.

Fair enough. I'll take a shot at the necessary changes (if you want me 
to). Is it OK to use fcinfo->flinfo->fn_mcxt as the long term memory 
context or is there a better choice? Is funcctx->multi_call_memory_ctx a 
suitable name in place of funcctx->fmctx?

Joe



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