On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes: >> If we're really doing it, sure. But putting half of it in >> TopMemoryContext and the other half in CacheMemoryContext is not >> obviously of any value. > > There isn't any of that stuff that's *in* TopMemoryContext. Whether the > hash table contexts are children of TopMemoryContext or > CacheMemoryContext would be important if we were ever going to reset > either, but we aren't. The main point in my mind is that it be possible > to tell from a memory stats dump how much is being used for what, and we > do have that.
Oh, I see. I was thinking that it might matter that the hash table contexts are descended from TopMemoryContext rather than CacheMemoryContext, but I guess that doesn't matter very much. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
