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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: "debug_invalidate_system_caches_always" is too long
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> The clobbering doesn't actually happen unless you turn on 
> CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY, so it would be good to keep that separate.

Fair point.  What do you think of the alternative proposals
"debug_flush_caches", "debug_discard_caches", etc?

			regards, tom lane