Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types
Date: 2022-08-30 16:17:33
Message-ID: 3680169.1661876253@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Here's a patch which adds a comment to MemoryContextMethodID to Robert's patch.

OK, but while looking at that I noticed the adjacent

#define MEMORY_CONTEXT_METHODID_MASK \
UINT64CONST((1 << MEMORY_CONTEXT_METHODID_BITS) - 1)

I'm rather astonished that that compiles; UINT64CONST was only ever
meant to be applied to *literals*. I think what it's expanding to
is

((1 << MEMORY_CONTEXT_METHODID_BITS) - 1UL)

(or on some machines 1ULL) which only accidentally does approximately
what you want. It'd be all right perhaps to write

((UINT64CONST(1) << MEMORY_CONTEXT_METHODID_BITS) - 1)

but you might as well avoid the Postgres-ism and just write

((uint64) ((1 << MEMORY_CONTEXT_METHODID_BITS) - 1))

Nobody's ever going to make MEMORY_CONTEXT_METHODID_BITS large
enough for the shift to overflow in int arithmetic.

regards, tom lane

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