Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes: > With connection poolers letting the connections to the server be around > for a long time, wouldn't it be an issue to let this much memory live > longer than the transaction context? The deeper the stack, the more > memory consumed, hence the more OS cache that PostgreSQL cannot use. So > this could impact performance for some loads. I would vote for cleaning > up this memory instead of letting it live unused in TopMemoryContext.
It's only ~100 bytes per stack level. I think under normal loads nobody would notice. If you're worried about cross-transaction memory consumption, our various caches tend to be a lot worse. regards, tom lane