Re: Move pg_attribute.attcompression to earlier in struct for reduced size?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Move pg_attribute.attcompression to earlier in struct for reduced size?
Date: 2021-06-04 22:51:00
Message-ID: 449921.1622847060@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> It seems to me that most of the overhead is the function call for
> toast_get_compression_id(), so we should get rid of that.

Nice result. I'm willing to live with 1.5% slowdown ... IME that's
usually below the noise threshold anyway.

> Now, while this patch does seem to work correctly, it raises a number of
> weird cpluspluscheck warnings, which I think are attributable to the
> new macro definitions. I didn't look into it closely, but I suppose it
> should be fixable given sufficient effort:

Didn't test, but the first one is certainly fixable by adding a cast,
and I guess the others might be as well.

regards, tom lane

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