Re: Decrease MAX_BACKENDS to 2^16

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-04-26 05:40:21 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, where are you finding that a 32-bit integer is
>> causing problems that a 16-bit one would solve?

> Save space? For one it allows to shrink some structs (into one
> cacheline!).

And next week when we need some other field in a buffer header,
what's going to happen?  If things are so tight that we need to
shave a few bits off backend IDs, the whole thing is a house of
cards anyway.
        regards, tom lane