Re: Move pg_attribute.attcompression to earlier in struct for reduced size? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> pg_attribute is one of the biggest table in a new cluster, and often the
> biggest table in production clusters. Its size is also quite relevant in
> memory, due to all the TupleDescs we allocate.
> 
> I just noticed that the new attcompression increased the size not just
> by 1 byte, but by 4, due to padding. While an increase from 112 to 116
> bytes isn't the end of the world, it does seem worth considering using
> existing unused bytes instead?

+1

FYI: attcompression was an OID until a few weeks before the feature was merged,
and there were several issues related to that:
  aa25d1089 - fixed two issues
  226e2be38

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Justin