Re: predefined role(s) for VACUUM and ANALYZE

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 04:15:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> In view of the recent mess around bigint relfilenodes, it seems to me
> that we shouldn't move forward with widening AclMode unless somebody
> runs down which structs will get wider (or more aligned) and how much
> that'll cost us.  Maybe it's not a problem, but it could do with an
> explicit look at the point.

The main one I see is AclItem, which increases from 12 bytes to 16 bytes.
AFAICT all of the catalogs that store aclitem arrays have the aclitem[]
column marked extended, so they are compressed or moved out-of-line as
needed, too.  The only other structs I've spotted that make use of AclMode
are InternalGrant and InternalDefaultACL.  I haven't identified anything
that leads me to believe there are alignment problems or anything else
comparable to the issues listed in the relfilenode thread [0], but I could
be missing something.  Did you have something else in mind you think ought
to be checked?  I'm not sure my brief analysis here suffices.

[0] https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaa9Yc9O-FP4vS_xTKf8Wgy8TzHpjnjN56_ShKE%3DjrP-Q%40mail.gmail.com

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