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Re: Rethinking MemoryContext creation

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2017-12-11T17:25:21Z
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On 11 December 2017 at 16:27, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> For a *very* large majority of the callers of AllocSetContextCreate,
> the context name is a simple C string constant, so we could just store
> the pointer to it and save the space and cycles required to copy it.

Why have the string at all in that case?

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  1. Rethink MemoryContext creation to improve performance.