David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > However, maybe you've left it this way as you feel it's a decision > that must be made in the future, perhaps based on how difficult it > would be to free up another bit?
Yeah, pretty much. I think it'll be a long time before we run out of memory context IDs, and it's hard to anticipate the tradeoffs that will matter at that time. regards, tom lane