Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Well, the number of work items is currently fixed; but if you have many
> > BRIN indexes, then you'd overflow (lose requests). By using DSA I am
> > making it easy to patch this afterwards so that an arbitrary number of
> > requests can be recorded.
>
> But that could also use an arbitrarily large amount of memory, and any
> leaks will be cluster-lifespan.
Good point -- probably not such a great idea as presented. The patch
only uses a fixed amount of memory currently, so it should be fine on
that front. I think this is a good enough start.
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