Re: Do we still need parent column in pg_backend_memory_context?

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Melih Mutlu <m.melihmutlu@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-08-06T05:48:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 at 13:27, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> > One thing we could do is remove it and see if anyone complains.  If we
> > did that today, there's about a year-long window for people to
> > complain where we could still reverse the decision.
>
> Seems like a plausible compromise.

Does anyone object to making this happen? i.e. remove
pg_backend_memory_contexts.parent column and see if anyone complains?

If nobody comes up with any reasons against it, then I propose making
this happen.

David



Commits

  1. Remove "parent" column from pg_backend_memory_contexts