Beena Emerson <memissemer...@gmail.com> writes:
> In the pg_trgm module, within function generate_trgm, the memory for trigrams
> is allocated as follows:

> trg = (TRGM *) palloc(TRGMHDRSIZE + sizeof(trgm) * (slen / 2 + 1) *3);

> I have been trying to understand why this is so because it seems to be
> allocating more space than that is required.

Consider input like 'X X X X X'.  Each X produces 3 trigrams.

                        regards, tom lane


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