docs: public final long appendRecord(T record) throws IOException {
  		long pointer = this.writeView.getCurrentPointer();
  		try {
  			this.serializer.serialize(record, this.writeView);
  			this.recordCounter++;
  			return pointer;
  		} catch (EOFException e) {
  			// we ran out of pages. 
  			// first, reset the pages and then we need to trigger a compaction
  			//int oldCurrentBuffer = 
  			this.writeView.resetTo(pointer);
  			//for (int bufNum = this.partitionPages.size() - 1; bufNum > oldCurrentBuffer; bufNum--) {
  			//	this.availableMemory.addMemorySegment(this.partitionPages.remove(bufNum));
  			//}
  			throw e;
  		}
  	}