On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> wrote:
> Correctly align page's images in generic wal API
>
> Page image should be MAXALIGN'ed because existing code could directly align
> pointers in page instead of align offset from beginning of page.
>
> Found during play with indexes as extenstion, Alexander Korotkov and me
Instead of allocating this memory unconditionally for each buffer,
wouldn't it be better to set all the page pointers to NULL in
GenericXLogStart and allocate memory only once a buffer is registered
in GenericXLogRegisterBuffer when finding a free slot? This patch is
wasting many cycles.
--
Michael