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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Interesting misbehavior of repalloc()
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In response to Re: Interesting misbehavior of repalloc()  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Interesting misbehavior of repalloc()  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> We could also only do the realloc-in-place only if there isn't a 4k chunk in
> the 4k freelist. I'm imagining that usually there wouldn't be.

Or in general, if there's a free chunk of the right size then copy to
it, else consider realloc-in-place.  Counterintuitive but it might work.
I'm not sure how often there wouldn't be a free chunk though ...
        regards, tom lane

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