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Re: Add bump memory context type and use it for tuplesorts

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

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From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-06T02:42:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 03:24, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> OK.  I did not read the patch very closely, but at least in principle
> I have no further objections.  David, are you planning to take point
> on getting this in?

Yes. I'll be looking soon.

David

Commits

  1. Update mmgr's README to mention BumpContext

  2. Push dedicated BumpBlocks to the tail of the blocks list

  3. Improve test coverage in bump.c

  4. Fix incorrect KeeperBlock macro in bump.c

  5. Use bump memory context for tuplesorts

  6. Introduce a bump memory allocator

  7. Enlarge bit-space for MemoryContextMethodID