Re: pgsql: Generational memory allocator

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Generational memory allocator
Date: 2017-11-23 09:57:10
Message-ID: CANP8+jKoT=Pg5W_3FcKiDf+FMrJhFYacxt_g5E0=tkmb5s8M6g@mail.gmail.com
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On 23 November 2017 at 11:16, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2017-11-22 18:48:19 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> Generational memory allocator
>>
>> Add new style of memory allocator, known as Generational
>> appropriate for use in cases where memory is allocated
>> and then freed in roughly oldest first order (FIFO).
>>
>> Use new allocator for logical decoding’s reorderbuffer
>> to significantly reduce memory usage and improve performance.
>
> Looks like it's not quite valgrind clean:
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=skink&dt=2017-11-22%2022%3A30%3A01

It doesn't report anything useful that would allow me to fix this.

Please enable some info reporting on the animal.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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