Re: Memory Accounting v11

From: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Memory Accounting v11
Date: 2015-07-15 07:29:55
Message-ID: CAOeZVidFijTeOXBFXoc+LzSaeARRew7cPGK8tjwLxM0xaNLYBg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 16:19 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > tuplesort.c does its own accounting, and TBH that seems like the right
> > thing to do here, too. The difficulty is, I think, that some
> > transition functions use an internal data type for the transition
> > state, which might not be a single palloc'd chunk. But since we can't
> > spill those aggregates to disk *anyway*, that doesn't really matter.
>
> So would it be acceptable to just ignore the memory consumed by
> "internal", or come up with some heuristic?
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis
>
>
I think a heuristic would be more suited here and ignoring memory
consumption for internal types means that we are not making the memory
accounting useful for a set of usecases.

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Regards,

Atri
*l'apprenant*

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