On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Interesting. Having not looked at memory management schemes used in the > > pl implementations, can you enlighten me by what you mean by "integrate > > the memory-context notion"? Does that mean they are not using > > palloc/pfree stuff? > > Not everywhere. plpgsql is full of malloc's and I think the other PL > modules are too --- and that's not to mention the allocation policies of > the perl, tcl, etc, language interpreters...
I was going to make the suggestion that malloc et al. could be replaced with palloc etc but then that raises too many complications without just shooving everything into a long lived context anyway. Also I think we've got to rely on, i.e. it is sensible to do so, the underlying language handling memory correctly. Hmmm...there do seem to be a few mallocs in plpython.c . I haven't looked very closely but nothing jumped out at me as being obviously wrong from the grep output. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
