Re: Question about the MemoryContext

Thank you :)

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 18:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
> > Could someone please explain the MemoryContext switching. For example
> > MemoryContextSwitchTo function. How does this work?
>
> src/backend/utils/mmgr/README might help. It's somewhat pointed at
> people who've already been hacking the backend, but I think it will
> give you the idea.
>
> The basic point is that palloc() allocates memory in whichever context
> was last selected as CurrentMemoryContext by MemoryContextSwitchTo.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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