David Boreham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Having malloc/free use >> an internal mutex is necessary in multi-threaded programs, but the >> backend isn't multi-threaded.
> Hmm...confused. I'm not following why then there is contention for the > mutex. There isn't any contention for that mutex; Jignesh's results merely show that it was taken and released a lot of times. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend