I'm not particularly familiar with the codebase of either PostgreSQL
or GHC, but I'd be rather surprised that porting GHC's garbage
collector to PostgreSQL would be an easy or worthwhile task. For
example, GHC's garbage collector understands the memory layout that
its data structures use,
Dear all,
recently, at an email conversation with pgsql hackers I had a quick
shot, asking about their position to somebody replacing their palloc GC
-- having roughly in mind that either here or on a Mercury mailing list
(where there's a similar case with a pure declarative language and a
