Re: Change GUC hashtable to use simplehash?

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
Cc: Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@cybertec.at>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-03-28T05:37:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Silence warning in older versions of Valgrind

  2. Revert "Speed up tail processing when hashing aligned C strings, take two"

  3. Speed up tail processing when hashing aligned C strings, take two

  4. Teach fasthash_accum to use platform endianness for bytewise loads

  5. Add macro to disable address safety instrumentation

  6. Convert uses of hash_string_pointer to fasthash equivalent

  7. Speed up tail processing when hashing aligned C strings

  8. Add helper functions for dshash tables with string keys.

  9. Fix warnings in cpluspluscheck

  10. Further cosmetic review of hashfn_unstable.h

  11. Simplify initialization of incremental hash state

  12. Add optimized C string hashing

  13. Add inline incremental hash functions for in-memory use

  14. Make all Perl warnings fatal

On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 13:44 +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers! In v20-0001, I've drafted checking thes
> spelling first, since pg_attribute_no_sanitize_alignment has a
> similar
> version check. Then it checks for no_sanitize_address using
> __has_attribute, which goes back to gcc 5. That's plenty for the
> buildfarm and CI, and I'm not sure it's worth expending additional
> effort to cover more cases. (A similar attribute exists for MSVC in
> case it comes up.)

0001 looks good to me, thank you.

> v21-0003 adds a new file hashfn_unstable.c for convenience functions
> and converts all the duplicate frontend uses of hash_string_pointer.

Why not make hash_string() inline, too? I'm fine with it either way,
I'm just curious why you went to the trouble to create a new .c file so
it didn't have to be inlined.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis