Re: Renaming MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren to MemoryContextReset

Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> ... Without a compiler erroring out people won't
> notice that suddenly MemoryContextReset deletes much more; leading to
> possibly hard to find errors.

BTW, so far as *data* is concerned, the existing call deletes all data in
the child contexts already. The only not-already-buggy operation you could
perform before that would no longer work is to allocate fresh data in one
of those child contexts, assuming you still had a pointer to such a
context. I've not seen any coding pattern in which that's likely. The
problem is exactly that whoever's resetting the parent context isn't aware
of child contexts having been attached to it.

regards, tom lane