Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready
Date: 2023-05-24 17:45:00
Message-ID: ZG5NHFRXxToOI4Ca@momjian.us
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On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 01:43:50PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > * Reduce palloc() memory overhead for all memory allocations down to 8
> > bytes on all platforms. (Andres Freund, David Rowley)
> >
> > This allows more efficient use of memory and is especially useful in
> > queries which perform operations (such as sorting or hashing) that
> > require more than work_mem.
>
> Well, this would go in the source code section, but it seems too
> internal and global to mention.

What was the previous memory allocation overhead?

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