Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-08-29 11:43:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think adding a padding field to SlabBlock would be a less messy
>> solution than your patch.

> That just seems to invite the same problem happening again later and it's
> harder to ensure that the padding is correct across platforms.

Yeah, I just tried and failed to write a general padding computation
--- you can't use sizeof() in the #if, which makes it a lot more
fragile than I was expecting.  Tomas' way is probably the best.

            regards, tom lane