Avoid memcpy() with same source and destination during relmapper init.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: b70cab8a2c835f37cabcbe85ad480b7ce3889ee1
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-12-18T20:46:44Z
Releases: 10.16
Avoid memcpy() with same source and destination during relmapper init.

A narrow reading of the C standard says that memcpy(x,x,n) is undefined,
although it's hard to envision an implementation that would really
misbehave.  However, analysis tools such as valgrind might whine about
this; accordingly, let's band-aid relmapper.c to not do it.

See also 5b630501e, d3f4e8a8a, ad7b48ea0, and other similar fixes.
Apparently, none of those folk tried valgrinding initdb?  This has been
like this for long enough that I'm surprised it hasn't been reported
before.

Back-patch, just in case anybody wants to use a back branch on a platform
that complains about this; we back-patched those earlier fixes too.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161790.1608310142@sss.pgh.pa.us

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src/backend/utils/cache/relmapper.c modified +9 −2

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