"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps we should just remove lines 934-982 of aset.c, and always handle > small-chunk reallocs with the "brute force" case. Can anyone see a way > to salvage something from the "realloc-in-place" idea? > > One thought that comes to mind is to try to make AllocSetFree recognize > when it's pfree'ing the last chunk in a memory block, and to handle that > by decrementing the freeptr instead of putting the chunk into any > freelist.
We could also only do the realloc-in-place only if there isn't a 4k chunk in the 4k freelist. I'm imagining that usually there wouldn't be. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
