Re: Is custom MemoryContext prohibited?

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:09 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> No.  No.  Just NO.  (A) that's overly complex for developers to use,
>> and (B) you have far too much faith in the debugger producing something
>> useful.  (My experience is that it'll fail to render function pointers
>> legibly on an awful lot of platforms.)  Plus, you won't actually save
>> any space by removing both of those fields.

> FWIW, I noticed that GDB becomes much better at this when you add "set
> print symbol on" to your .gdbinit dot file about a year ago.

Interesting.  But I bet there are platform and version dependencies
in the mix, too.  I'd still not wish to rely on this for debugging.

            regards, tom lane