Re: Reducing relcache memory usage 2: shrink sizeof(RelationData)

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: David Geier <geidav(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Haibo Yan <tristan(dot)yim(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing relcache memory usage 2: shrink sizeof(RelationData)
Date: 2026-10-16 15:43:11
Message-ID: atJEhCJTFOqrj1X4@alvherre.pgsql
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Hi,

> From: David Geier <geidav(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 14:06:21 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH v4 3/7] Move RelationData to an internal header
>
> Move the definition of RelationData into utils/rel_internal.h. Otherwise,
> gen_node_support.pl cannot process rel.h after the anonymous unions are
> introduced by the following commit, because the script does not support
> parsing anonymous unions.

I really dislike this. Why not do it the other way around, and put the
one struct that gen_node_support.pl wants in a separate file instead?
As in the attached WIP. New file name TBD, of course.

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