Re: get rid of RM_HEAP2_ID

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: get rid of RM_HEAP2_ID
Date: 2025-10-15 14:39:38
Message-ID: 633f0bcf-f313-466b-aa09-c6f62056178f@iki.fi
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On 15/10/2025 07:51, John Naylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> This patch consumes one of the padding bytes. That's not entirely free,
>> as there is an opportunity cost: we could squeeze out the padding bytes
>> and save 2 bytes on every WAL record instead.
>
> I must be misunderstanding, because I'm not sure how that would work
> with the alignment requirement of later parts.

We could store xl_crc unaligned. IIRC all the structs that follow that
are already stored unaligned.

- Heikki

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