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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-09T19:36:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2022-Aug-09, Andres Freund wrote:

> Mildly wondering whether we ought to use designated initializers instead,
> given we're whacking it around already. Too easy to get the order wrong when
> adding new members, and we might want to have optional callbacks too.

Strong +1.  It makes code much easier to navigate (see XmlTableRoutine
and compare with heapam_methods, for example).

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Commits

  1. Harden memory context allocators against bogus chunk pointers.

  2. Improve our ability to detect bogus pointers passed to pfree et al.

  3. Remove MemoryContextContains().

  4. Remove uses of MemoryContextContains in nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c.

  5. Temporarily make MemoryContextContains return false

  6. Make MemoryContextContains work correctly again

  7. Make more effort to put a sentinel at the end of allocated memory

  8. Fix some possibly latent bugs in slab.c

  9. Various cleanups of the new memory context header code

  10. Revert "Add missing padding from MemoryChunk struct"

  11. Use MAXALIGN() in calculations using sizeof(SlabBlock)

  12. Add missing padding from MemoryChunk struct

  13. Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management