Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready
Date
Msg-id ZHaHb1cR8rcJOtZw@momjian.us
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In response to Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready
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On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 05:57:25PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 05:45, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 01:43:50PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > * Reduce palloc() memory overhead for all memory allocations down to 8
> > > > bytes on all platforms. (Andres Freund, David Rowley)
> > > >
> > > > This allows more efficient use of memory and is especially useful in
> > > > queries which perform operations (such as sorting or hashing) that
> > > > require more than work_mem.
> > >
> > > Well, this would go in the source code section, but it seems too
> > > internal and global to mention.
> >
> > What was the previous memory allocation overhead?
> 
> On 64-bit builds, it was 16 bytes for AllocSet contexts, 24 bytes for
> generation contexts and 16 bytes for slab contexts.

Okay, item added to Source Code:

    <!--
    Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
    2022-08-29 [c6e0fe1f2] Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory ma
    -->
    
    <listitem>
    <para>
    Reduce overhead of memory allocations (Andres Freund, David Rowley)
    </para>
    </listitem>

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