Re: Snapshot management, final

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Snapshot management, final
Date: 2008-04-23 12:24:36
Message-ID: 20080423122436.GB4768@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:

> The only reason we have memory contexts at all is to avoid the need to
> track individual palloc'd objects. Since we're instituting exactly such
> tracking for snapshots, there's no value in placing them in
> general-purpose memory contexts.

FWIW I noticed yesterday after going to bed that SnapshotContext serves
no useful purpose -- we can just remove it and store snaps in
TopTransactionContext.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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