Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re:

Joe Conway wrote:

> What if we built an array of A_Const nodes instead of a List? Maybe we
> could use something akin to appendStringInfo()/enlargeStringInfo() to
> build the array of nodes and enlarge it in chunks.

In inval.c you find this:

/*
* To minimize palloc traffic, we keep pending requests in successively-
* larger chunks (a slightly more sophisticated version of an expansible
* array). All request types can be stored as SharedInvalidationMessage
* records. The ordering of requests within a list is never significant.
*/
typedef struct InvalidationChunk
{
struct InvalidationChunk *next; /* list link */
int nitems; /* # items currently stored in chunk */
int maxitems; /* size of allocated array in this chunk */
SharedInvalidationMessage msgs[1]; /* VARIABLE LENGTH ARRAY */
} InvalidationChunk; /* VARIABLE LENGTH STRUCTURE */

Which might give you an idea ...

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