[geos-devel] geom_accum and memory management

[Heitzso]

Hi, I'm monitoring the geos list and am grateful for all of the hard
work that everyone is putting into this package.  But sometimes the
details of the whirlwind changes obscure the bigger picture for me.
Are you nearing a release or are all of the big/good changes that
are going into cvs going to require a cooling-off period for a few
months to shake out the last memory/other bugs? 

Probably a better way to phrase my question is .... when
will these mods be settled in and ready for use in a production
environment?

Thanks!

strk wrote:

>The introduced geom_accum function will force a copy of DETOASTED
>geometries to allow for final functions release of memory associated
>with each array element. Without an explicit copy, PG_DETOAST_DATUM
>might or not allocate new memory, so we will not be safe explicitly
>pfree'ing result.
>
>Now. 
>
>Final aggregate functions (fastcollect, fastunion) will release
>memory associated with each array element to reduce old memory
>usage while allocating new memory for the resulting objects.
>
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