"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > EState is about 8300 bytes,
What? (gdb) p sizeof(EState) $1 = 112 This is on a 32-bit machine, but even on 64-bit it wouldn't be more than double that. > Would it be worth a special case in the palloc system to avoid having to > repeatedly issue external memory allocation calls? The appropriate hack would be to change the AllocSetContextCreate initial-size parameter for the containing context. But I really have no idea what you're on about. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings