"Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Well, I discover there is an allocation of 8232 (inflation...) made once
> per statement by a memory context called... ExecutorState. Still not
> sure exactly which allocation this is, but its definitely once per
> statement on pgbench, which should narrow it down. Plan, query etc?
Are you working with stock sources? The only allocation exceeding 1K
that I can see during pgbench is BTScanOpaqueData, which is 6600 bytes.
(Checked by setting a conditional breakpoint on AllocSetAlloc.) The
path that allocates a single-chunk block is never taken at all.
regards, tom lane