On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Kevin Grittner <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I actually think that memory management is one of the weakest >> elements of our current architecture > > I'm actually pretty impressed by the memory contexts in PostgreSQL. > Apparently I'm not alone in that, either; a paper by Hellerstein, > Stonebraker, and Hamilton[1] has this in section 7.2 (Memory > Allocator): > > "The interested reader may want to browse the open-source PostgreSQL > code. This utilizes a fairly sophisticated memory allocator." > > I think the problem here is that we don't extend that sophistication > to shared memory.
That's one aspect of it, and the other is that we don't have much global coordination about how we use it. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
