Re: Fix incorrect comments in tuplesort.c
David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: cca5507 <cca5507@qq.com>, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-12-07T23:10:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote: > The comment is effectively > explaining that we don't want to make the array big enough so that a > malloc will always be required. Doesn't what you are saying contradict both the formula (the +1 post-division) and the comments: /* * Initial size of array must be more than ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD; * see comments in grow_memtuples(). */ state->memtupsize = INITIAL_MEMTUPSIZE; state->memtuples = NULL; and in grow_memtuples: * That shouldn't happen because we chose the * initial array size large enough to ensure that palloc will be treating * both old and new arrays as separate chunks. ? David J.