Re: Is custom MemoryContext prohibited?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)heterodb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is custom MemoryContext prohibited?
Date: 2020-01-29 03:16:16
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzn9JY_9ZJjs68atLf9QJaJ=-XSuBKUMXwS855N13NgNzg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 6:53 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > FWIW, I noticed that GDB becomes much better at this when you add "set
> > print symbol on" to your .gdbinit dot file about a year ago.
>
> Interesting. But I bet there are platform and version dependencies
> in the mix, too. I'd still not wish to rely on this for debugging.

I agree that there are a lot of moving pieces here. I wouldn't like to
have to rely on this working myself.

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Peter Geoghegan

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