Re: [REVIEW] Re: Compression of full-page-writes

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed(dot)90(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Re: Compression of full-page-writes
Date: 2014-06-18 12:43:02
Message-ID: 20140618124302.GL3115@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-06-18 18:10:34 +0530, Rahila Syed wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> >I have a few preliminary comments about your patch
> Thank you for review comments.
>
> >the patch creates src/common/lz4/.travis.yml, which it shouldn't.
> Agree. I will remove it.
>
> >Shouldn't this use palloc?
> palloc() is disallowed in critical sections and we are already in CS while
> executing this code. So we use malloc(). It's OK since the memory is
> allocated just once per session and it stays till the end.

malloc() isn't allowed either. You'll need to make sure all memory is
allocated beforehand

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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