Re: Can we remove extra memset in BloomInitPage, GinInitPage and SpGistInitPage when we have it in PageInit?

Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-07T06:17:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 11:44 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 06:31:19AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > Setting p->pd_flags = 0; is unnecessary and redundant after memsetting
> > the page to zeros. Also, see the existing code for pd_prune_xid,
> > similarly I've done that for pd_flags. I think it's okay with /*
> > p->pd_flags = 0;        done by above MemSet */.
>
> Sure, but this one does not hurt much either as-is, so I have left it
> out, and applied the rest.

Thanks for pushing the patch.

I wanted to comment out p->pd_flags = 0; in PageInit similar to the
pd_prune_xid just for consistency.
    /* p->pd_prune_xid = InvalidTransactionId;        done by above MemSet */

With Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



Commits

  1. Remove redundant memset(0) calls for page init of some index AMs