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

[Tomas Vondra]

On 8/30/22 03:04, David Rowley wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 12:22, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.von...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I think it's probably a good idea. However, I'm not yet sure if we can
> keep it as a macro or if it would need to become a static inline
> function to do that.
> 

I'd bet it can be done in the macro. See VARATT_EXTERNAL_GET_POINTER for
example of a "do" block with an Assert.

> What I'd really have wished for is a macro like AssertPointersEqual()
> that spat out the two pointer values. That would probably have saved
> more time on this issue.
> 

Hmm, maybe.

regards

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Tomas Vondra
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