Re: hyrax vs. RelationBuildPartitionDesc

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-03-13T20:38:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:18 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Off topic for the moment, since this clearly wouldn't be back-patch
> material, but I'm starting to wonder if we should just have a context
> for each relcache entry and get rid of most or all of the retail
> cleanup logic in RelationDestroyRelation ...

I think that idea might have a lot of merit, but I haven't studied it closely.

-- 
Robert Haas
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Commits

  1. Load relcache entries' partitioning data on-demand, not immediately.

  2. Prevent memory leaks associated with relcache rd_partcheck structures.

  3. Don't copy PartitionBoundInfo in set_relation_partition_info.

  4. Further reduce memory footprint of CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS testing.

  5. Fix some oversights in commit 2455ab488.

  6. Defend against leaks into RelationBuildPartitionDesc.

  7. Allow ATTACH PARTITION with only ShareUpdateExclusiveLock.