Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types
Date: 2022-08-29 13:47:43
Message-ID: 3137572.1661780863@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I suspect, going by all 3 failing animals being 32-bit which have a
> MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF 8 and SIZEOF_SIZE_T of 4 that this is due to the lack
> of padding in the MemoryChunk struct.
> AllocChunkData and GenerationChunk had padding to account for
> sizeof(Size) being 4 and sizeof(void *) being 8, I didn't add that to
> MemoryChunk, so I'll do that now.

Doesn't seem to have fixed it. IMO, the fact that we can get through
core regression tests and pg_upgrade is a strong indicator that
there's not anything fundamentally wrong with memory context
management. I'm inclined to think the problem is in d2169c9985,
instead ... though I can't see anything wrong with it.

Another possibility is that there's a pre-existing bug in the
logical decoding stuff that your changes accidentally exposed.
I wonder if valgrind would show anything interesting.

regards, tom lane

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