Re: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster (postmaster.c) - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Tom Lane writes:

> OK, do you want to fix it, or shall I?

I will. I got some half-finished code lying around that touches that.

> BTW, it is now possible for guc.c to use palloc in TopMemoryContext,
> if you want to do that.  There's no real functional difference between
> that and malloc --- except that MemoryContextStats() could include
> the space used by guc.c --- but if it's just irritating you to use
> malloc then you could change it.

Well, I would really like a way to register an entire memory context to be
swept away by elog(ERROR). But that's probably too specialized. But yes, I
will look into that.

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