Re: Any advice about function caching?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 07 November 2005 23:06
> To: Mark Cave-Ayland (External)
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Any advice about function caching?

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> If you want per-query state, keep it in a data structure
> linked from the
> fcinfo->flinfo->fn_extra field (physically, store it in fn_mcxt, or
> fcinfo->flinfo->create a subcontext of that if you wish).
>
> If you need to get control at query shutdown to free
> non-palloc'd resources, RegisterExprContextCallback may help.
> (I think such callbacks are only called during *successful*
> query shutdown, though, so if you have external library state
> you need to clean up anyway, you'll need some other approach
> to keeping track of it ... maybe a permanent data structure
> instead of a per-query one.)
>
> src/backend/utils/fmgr/funcapi.c and
> src/backend/executor/functions.c might be useful examples.

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the advice about state - this is definitely pointing me towards
looking at the existing code for aggregates and SRFs. Incidentally I've
found that attaching my "cleanup" memory context to PortalContext with some
elogs() shows that it appears to be called correctly just before the portal
is destroyed - so whatever I finally come up with is likely to be a
combination of the two methods. I will dig further into the function code
and see how I manage.

Many thanks,

Mark.

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