Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> After chewing on that thought for a bit, it seems like an easy fix is to
>>> modify AllocSetContextCreate (around line 390 in HEAD's aset.c) so that
>>> allocChunkLimit is not just constrained to be less than maxBlockSize,
>>> but significantly less than maxBlockSize --- say an eighth or so.

>> well, +1 on any solution that doesn't push having to make assumptions
>> about the allocator from the outside.  your fix seems to nail it
>> without having to tinker around with the api which is nice. (plus you
>> could just remove the comment).
>> 
>> Some perfunctory probing didn't turn up any other cases like this.

> patch attached -- I did no testing beyond make check though.  I
> suppose changes to the allocator are not to be take lightly and this
> should really be tested in some allocation heavy scenarios.

I did a bit of testing of this and committed it with minor adjustments.

                        regards, tom lane

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