Re: Changing types of block and chunk sizes in memory contexts

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> Perhaps it's ok to leave the context creation functions with Size
> typed parameters and then just Assert the passed-in sizes are not
> larger than 1GB within the context creation function.

Yes, I'm strongly opposed to not using Size/size_t in the mmgr APIs.
If we go that road, we're going to have a problem when someone
inevitably wants to pass a larger-than-GB value for some context
type.

What happens in semi-private structs is a different matter, although
I'm a little dubious that shaving a couple of bytes from context
headers is a useful activity.  The self-documentation argument
still has some force there, so I agree with Peter that some positive
benefit has to be shown.

            regards, tom lane