Re: shall we have a TRACE_MEMORY mode

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 00:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> One idea that comes to mind is to have a compile time option to record
> the palloc __FILE__ and _LINE__ in every AllocChunk header.  Then it
> would not be so hard to identify the culprit while trawling through
> memory.  The overhead costs would be so high that you'd never turn it on
> by default though :-(

Could we set that as an option for each memory context when we create
it? All or nothing seems too extreme for me for most cases.

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