Hello
2011/9/5 Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>:
> Pavel, I have not taken on your patch for review, but I was reading the
> history of it, and one question popped up:
>
> If you are allocating a new cache, what if the array is really big, will 1st
> cache + your cache get bigger than work_mem? (or are array op's not
> constrained by work_mem? Sorry, I have not used array's so not sure if
> there are memory limits on them)
this patch doesn't cache a array - it store only a 18 bytes more per
array variable - it doesn't depend on array size.
but generally, arrays are not limited by work_mem - so if you work
with large arrays - you can go out of memory.
Regards
Pavel
>
> -Andy
>
