On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:21:53AM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > BTW, I recently noticed that the latest version of Valgrind, 3.12, > added this new feature: > > * Memcheck: > > - Added meta mempool support for describing a custom allocator which: > - Auto-frees all chunks assuming that destroying a pool destroys all > objects in the pool > - Uses itself to allocate other memory blocks > > It occurred to me that we might be able to make good use of this.
PostgreSQL memory contexts don't acquire blocks from other contexts; they all draw from malloc() directly. Therefore, I don't see this feature giving us something that the older Memcheck MEMPOOL support does not give us.
Moved to next CF with "needs review" status.
Please feel free to update the status if the current status doesn't reflect the status