On 2020-02-18 11:20:17 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> Andres, any objections on proceeding with Kuntal's patch for
> back-branches (10, 9.6 and 9.5)?
Yes. In my past experiments that lead to *terrible* allocator
performance due to fragmentation. Like, up to 90% of the time spent in
aset.c. Try a workload with a number of overlapping transactions that
have different tuple sizes.
I'm not even sure it's the right thing to do anything in the back
branches to be honest. If somebody hits this badly they likely have done
so before, and they at least have the choice to upgrade, but if we
regress performance for more people...