Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([2a02:16a8:dc51::56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1g7BzR-0007sZ-N1 for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 04:08:53 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1g7BzP-0002o5-NM for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 04:08:51 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1g7BzP-0002nw-Fm for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 04:08:51 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1g7BzN-000362-GD for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 04:08:51 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w924862h013341; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 00:08:06 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Amit Kapila cc: Thomas Munro , PostgreSQL Hackers , hlinnaka Subject: Re: SerializeParamList vs machines with strict alignment In-reply-to: References: <11629.1536550032@sss.pgh.pa.us> <8352.1536586500@sss.pgh.pa.us> <27748.1538425312@sss.pgh.pa.us> <28627.1538426947@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4694.1538438514@sss.pgh.pa.us> <8134.1538444333@sss.pgh.pa.us> <12777.1538452350@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Amit Kapila message dated "Tue, 02 Oct 2018 09:33:55 +0530" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <13339.1538453286.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:08:06 -0400 Message-ID: <13340.1538453286@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Amit Kapila writes: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:22 AM Tom Lane wrote: >> (I think we could drop the savepoint >> too, no?) > One advantage of keeping the savepoint is that we don't need to > explicitly drop the objects which we have created temporarily for this > test. They'll go away anyway at the end of the transaction that the whole script is wrapped in. (But it might be worth choosing slightly less generic object names, to avoid a conflict against other sub-tests later in that script.) regards, tom lane