Tomas Vondra <t...@fuzzy.cz> writes:
> i.e. either destroy the whole context if possible, and just free the
> memory when using a shared memory context. But I'm afraid this would
> penalize the shared memory context, because that's intended for cases
> where all the build states coexist in parallel and then at some point
> are all converted into a result and thrown away. Adding pfree() calls is
> no improvement here, and just wastes cycles.

FWIW, I quite dislike the terminology "shared memory context", because
it sounds too much like it means "a context in shared memory".  I see
that the patch itself doesn't use that phrase, which is good, but can
we come up with some other phrase for talking about it?

                        regards, tom lane


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