Add some notes about memory management of RI plans.

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* Generic trigger procedures for referential integrity constraint
* checks.
*
* 1999 Jan Wieck
* Note about memory management: the private hashtables kept here live
* across query and transaction boundaries, in fact they live as long as
* the backend does. This works because the hashtable structures
* themselves are allocated by dynahash.c in its permanent DynaHashCxt,
* and the parse/plan node trees they point to are copied into
* TopMemoryContext using SPI_saveplan(). This is pretty ugly, since there
* is no way to free a no-longer-needed plan tree, but then again we don't
* yet have any bookkeeping that would allow us to detect that a plan isn't
* needed anymore. Improve it someday.
*
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c,v 1.20 2000/12/22 18:35:09 tgl Exp $
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 2000-2001, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Copyright 1999 Jan Wieck
*
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c,v 1.21 2001/02/15 21:57:43 tgl Exp $
*
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