Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> As a compromise, perhaps we can unconditionally round the size up to be
> a multiple of 2MB? That way, we can use huge pages more often, but also
> avoid putting in a lot of code and effort into the workaround and waste
> only a little space (if any at all).
That sounds reasonably painless to me. Note that at least in our main
shmem segment, "extra" space is not useless, because it allows slop for
the main hash tables, notably the locks table.
regards, tom lane
