Re: [GENERAL] huge RAM use in multi-command ALTER of table heirarchy

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] huge RAM use in multi-command ALTER of table heirarchy
Date: 2017-07-20 12:39:11
Message-ID: CAM-w4HP9dtsM8GyoAgZhGLyXWAs30siUpoUg2n6+b6GcO4E0=w@mail.gmail.com
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On 19 July 2017 at 00:26, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> It's probably a bit late in the v10 cycle to be taking any risks in
> this area, but I'd vote for ripping out RememberToFreeTupleDescAtEOX
> as soon as the v11 cycle opens, unless someone can show an example
> of non-broken coding that requires it. (And if so, there ought to
> be a regression test incorporating that.)

Would it be useful to keep in one of the memory checking assertion builds?

--
greg

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