On 2024-Jan-30, Dmitry Dolgov wrote: > Yep, in this constellation the implementation holds much better (in > terms of memory) in my create/let/drop testing. > > I've marked the CF item as ready for committer, but a note for anyone > who would like to pick up it from here -- we're talking about first 5 > patches here, up to the memory cleaning after DROP VARIABLE. It doesn't > mean the rest is somehow not worth it, but I believe it's a good first > step.
Hmm, I think patch 16 is essential, because the point of variable shadowing is a critical aspect of how the whole thing works. So I would say that a first step would be those first five patches plus 16. I want to note that when we discussed this patch series at the dev meeting in FOSDEM, a sort-of conclusion was reached that we didn't want schema variables at all because of the fact that creating a variable would potentially change the meaning of queries by shadowing table columns. But this turns out to be incorrect: it's _variables_ that are shadowed by table columns, not the other way around. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "No hay ausente sin culpa ni presente sin disculpa" (Prov. francés)
