On 2016-03-17 20:11:00 +0000, Robert Haas wrote: > Improve memory management for external sorts. > > Introduce a new memory context which stores tuple data, and reset it > at the end of each merge pass; this helps avoid memory fragmentation > and, consequently, overallocation. Also, for the final merge patch, > eliminate memory context chunk header overhead entirely by allocating > all of the memory used for buffering tuples during the merge in a > single chunk. Since this modestly increases the number of tuples we > can store, grow the memtuples array a bit so that we're less likely to > run short of slots there. > > Peter Geoghegan. Review and testing of patches in this series by > Jeff Janes, Greg Stark, Mithun Cy, and me.
Cross compiling for windows results in: /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c: In function ‘beginmerge’: /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c:2695:34: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects argument of type ‘long int’, but argument 4 has type ‘int64 {aka long long int}’ [-Wformat=] elog(LOG, "tape %d initially used %ld KB of %ld KB batch " ^ /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c:2695:34: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects argument of type ‘long int’, but argument 5 has type ‘int64 {aka long long int}’ [-Wformat=] config.status: creating src/interfaces/ecpg/include/ecpg_config.h /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c: In function ‘beginmerge’: /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c:2695:34: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects argument of type ‘long int’, but argument 4 has type ‘int64 {aka long long int}’ [-Wformat=] elog(LOG, "tape %d initially used %ld KB of %ld KB batch " Which seems like a valid complain on a LLP64 platform (i.e. where long is 32bit) like windows. Andres -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list (pgsql-committers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers