Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I actually think that memory management is one of the weakest > elements of our current architecture I'm actually pretty impressed by the memory contexts in PostgreSQL. Apparently I'm not alone in that, either; a paper by Hellerstein, Stonebraker, and Hamilton[1] has this in section 7.2 (Memory Allocator): "The interested reader may want to browse the open-source PostgreSQL code. This utilizes a fairly sophisticated memory allocator." I think the problem here is that we don't extend that sophistication to shared memory. -Kevin
[1] Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker and James Hamilton. 2007. Architecture of a Database System. Foundations and Trends(R) in Databases Vol. 1, No. 2 (2007) 141*259. http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
