Re: Renaming MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren to MemoryContextReset

On 2015-02-26 23:31:16 +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> Without a compiler erroring out people won't notice that suddenly
> MemoryContextReset deletes much more; leading to possibly hard to find
> errors. Context resets frequently are in error paths, and those won't
> necessarily be hit when running with assertions enabled.

I'd really not even be surprised if a committer backpatches a
MemoryContextReset() addition, not realizing it behaves differently in
the back branches.

How about MemoryContextReset(bool reset_children)?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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