Re: lazy detoasting

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: lazy detoasting
Date: 2018-04-11 19:57:12
Message-ID: 87r2nlfrfv.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Chapman" == Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net> writes:

Chapman> There's precedent for that kind of thing in PL/Java already
Chapman> ... objects that Java considers alive as long as some code
Chapman> holds a reference to them, but proxy for things in PG that may
Chapman> only have function-call lifetime or cursor-row lifetime, etc.
Chapman> If they are closed by Java code (or the Java GC finds them
Chapman> unreachable) first, they have to remember to release their PG
Chapman> stuff; if the PG stuff goes first, they have to update
Chapman> themselves to throw a suitable "you've kept me past my sell-by
Chapman> date" exception if the Java code tries to use them again.

How's the code doing this? I couldn't find it in a cursory scan.

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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