Hi,
On 2018-06-05 09:35:13 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> But I don't think we've considered copying the whole AllocSet. Maybe that
> would work, not sure.
Don't think you'd need to fully copy it - you can just have a "wrapper"
memory context implementation that does the accounting and then hands
the actual work to AllocSet. That limits some things it can account for,
but I don't see those being really relevant.
> I wonder if an aggregate might use a custom context
> internally (I don't recall anything like that). The accounting capability
> seems potentially useful for other places, and those might not use AllocSet
> (or at least not directly).
Yea, that seems like a big issue.
Greetings,
Andres Freund