Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays

Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com> writes:
> This needs a rebase. After that check-world passes w/ and w/o
> -DDEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE.

Yup, here's a rebase against HEAD (and I also find that check-world shows
no problems). This is pretty much of a pain to maintain, since it changes
the API for lnext() which is, um, a bit invasive. I'd like to make a
decision pretty quickly on whether we're going to do this, and either
commit this patch or abandon it.

> There is some unneeded MemoryContext stuff in async.c's
> pg_listening_channels() which should be cleaned up.

Yeah, there's a fair amount of follow-on cleanup that could be undertaken
afterwards, but I've wanted to keep the patch's footprint as small as
possible for the moment. Assuming we pull the trigger, I'd then go look
at removing the planner's duplicative lists+arrays for RTEs and such as
the first cleanup step. But thanks for the pointer to async.c, I'll
check that too.

regards, tom lane