On 2020-Aug-14, Michael Paquier wrote: > Regarding the maximum number of slots allocated. Do people like the > current approach taken by the patch to do a single loop of the > dependency entries at the cost of more allocating perhaps too much for > the array holding the set of TupleTableSlots (the actual slot > initialization happens only if necessary)? Or would it be preferred > to scan twice the set of dependencies, discarding pinned dependencies > in a first scan to build the list of dependencies that would be > inserted? This way, you can know the exact amount memory to allocated > for TupleTableSlots, though that's just 64B for each one of them.
It seems a bit silly to worry about allocating just the exact amount needed; the current approach looked fine to me. The logic to keep track number of used slots used is baroque, though -- that could use a lot of simplification. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
