Reduce the default size of the PortalHashTable in order to save a

few cycles during transaction exit.  A typical session probably
wouldn't have as many as half a dozen portals open at once, so the
original value of 64 seems far larger than needed.

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c
index 23afef4..e7fa2cd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c,v 1.74 2004/10/12 01:50:04 neilc Exp $
+ *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c,v 1.75 2004/11/21 22:48:01 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -26,10 +26,13 @@
 #include "utils/portal.h"
 
 /*
- * estimate of the maximum number of open portals a user would have,
- * used in initially sizing the PortalHashTable in EnablePortalManager()
+ * Estimate of the maximum number of open portals a user would have,
+ * used in initially sizing the PortalHashTable in EnablePortalManager().
+ * Since the hash table can expand, there's no need to make this overly
+ * generous, and keeping it small avoids unnecessary overhead in the
+ * hash_seq_search() calls executed during transaction end.
  */
-#define PORTALS_PER_USER          64
+#define PORTALS_PER_USER          16
 
 
 /* ----------------