Re: Memory management in Postgres

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Jorge Arévalo <jorge(dot)arevalo(at)deimos-space(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Memory management in Postgres
Date: 2011-04-13 20:14:11
Message-ID: BANLkTi=hprsEfyQhOak5r2U_-aLtL_-vtQ@mail.gmail.com
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2011/4/13 Jorge Arévalo <jorge(dot)arevalo(at)deimos-space(dot)com>:
>
> I'm very interested in PostgreSQL memory management, specially in the
> concept "memory context". I've read the official documentation at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/spi-memory.html, but I'd
> like to learn more about it. Do you recommend me any particular book
> or url?
>
> Many thanks in advance,

Have a look at the source code notes
pgsql/src/backend/utils/mmgr/README

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