pgsql: Tweak dynahash.c to avoid wasting memory space in non-shared hash

From: tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Tweak dynahash.c to avoid wasting memory space in non-shared hash
Date: 2006-06-25 18:29:49
Message-ID: 20060625182949.498859FA378@postgresql.org
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Tweak dynahash.c to avoid wasting memory space in non-shared hash tables.
palloc() will normally round allocation requests up to the next power of 2,
so make dynahash choose allocation sizes that are as close to a power of 2
as possible.
Back-patch to 8.1 --- the problem exists further back, but a much larger
patch would be needed and it doesn't seem worth taking any risks.

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/utils/hash:
dynahash.c (r1.67 -> r1.68)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c.diff?r1=1.67&r2=1.68)
pgsql/src/include/utils:
hsearch.h (r1.42 -> r1.43)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/utils/hsearch.h.diff?r1=1.42&r2=1.43)

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