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

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2022-09-01 04:08:10
Message-ID: CAApHDvrLBo2CKaCbmuxABSZ_9KTK6TE2v-o03634KieLLD=+zQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 16:06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Does anyone have any objections to d5ee4db0e in its entirety being backpatched?
>
> It doesn't seem to be fixing any live bug in the back branches,
> but by the same token it's harmless.

I considered that an extension might use the Slab allocator with a
non-MAXALIGNED chunksize and might run into some troubles during
SlabCheck().

David

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