Re: Change GUC hashtable to use simplehash?

John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

From: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.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: 2024-03-31T04:00:15Z
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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 Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:37 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.

Yeah, it's a bit strange looking in isolation, and I'm not sure I'll
go that route. When I was thinking of this, I also had dynahash and
dshash in mind, which do indirect calls, even if the function is
defined in the same file. That would still work with an inline
definition in the header, just duplicated in the different translation
units. Maybe that's not worth worrying about, since I imagine use
cases with indirect calls will remain rare.