Re: index prefetching

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Another issue with the "simple" patch: it adds 2 bool fields to
> "BTScanPosItem". That increases its size considerably. We're very
> sensitive to the size of this struct (I think that you know about this
> already). Bloating it like this will blow up our memory usage, since
> right now we allocate MaxTIDsPerBTreePage/1358 such structs for
> so->currPos (and so->markPos). Wasting all that memory on alignment
> padding is probably going to have consequences beyond memory bloat.

Actually, there is no alignment padding involved. Even still,
increasing that from 10 bytes to 12 bytes will hurt us. Remember the
issue with support function #6/skip support putting us over that
critical glibc threshold? (I've been meaning to get back to that
thread...)

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Peter Geoghegan