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

On 8/29/22 23:57, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
>> I've read over the emails and glanced at Tomas' patch. I think that
>> seems good. I think I'd rather see us do that than pad the struct out
>> further as Tomas' method is more aligned to what we do in aset.c
>> (ALLOC_BLOCKHDRSZ) and generation.c (Generation_BLOCKHDRSZ).
> 
>> I can adjust Tomas' patch to #define Slab_BLOCKHDRSZ
> 
> WFM
> 

Same here.

I also suggested doing a similar check in MemoryChunkGetPointer, so that
we catch the issue earlier - right after we allocate the chunk. Any
opinion on that? With an assert only in GetMemoryChunkMethodID() we'd
notice the issue much later, when it may not be obvious if it's a memory
corruption or what. But maybe it's overkill.

regards

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Tomas Vondra
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