On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:00:43PM -0400, Jack Orenstein wrote: > Can you provide some guidance (or point to some documentation) on how > to manage memory? Is the idea that I should (must?) not pfree > palloc'ed memory from Int64GetDatum, but I should free anything I > allocate myself using palloc? Or not even that?
If you want the gory details, check out the mmgr README file. http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mmgr/README?rev=1.9 However, except in fairly special circumstances (eg. index comparison functions) you don't ever need to bother with pfree(). The memory will all be freed at the right time. The documentation on C functions and set-returning functions also has info about when the context is reset. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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