Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 11 December 2017 at 16:27, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> For a *very* large majority of the callers of AllocSetContextCreate,
>> the context name is a simple C string constant, so we could just store
>> the pointer to it and save the space and cycles required to copy it.
> Why have the string at all in that case?
Try reading a MemoryContextStats dump without it ...
regards, tom lane