Re: BUG: pg_stat_statements query normalization issues with combined queries

Hello,

At Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:08:54 +0100 (CET), Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote in <alpine(dot)DEB(dot)2(dot)20(dot)1701122004190(dot)3788(at)lancre>
>
> About having a pointer to the initial string from RawStmt, Query &
> PlannedStmt:
>
> > I remembered one reason why we haven't done this: it's unclear how
> > we'd handle copying if we do it. If, say, Query contains a "char *"
> > pointer then you'd expect copyObject() to pstrdup that string, [...,
> > So] We'd need to work out a way of managing multiple Queries carrying
> > references to the same source string, and it's not clear how to do
> > that reasonably.
>
> For me it would be shared, but then it may break some memory
> management hypothesis downstream.

+1 to they have a pointer to the shared query string. But doing
that without some measure like reference counting seems
difficult..

regards,

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center