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Re: Change GUC hashtable to use simplehash?

John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

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From: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-12-07T01:38:03Z
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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, Dec 6, 2023 at 11:48 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2023-12-06 at 07:39 +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> > "git grep cstring_hash" found nothing, so not sure what you're
> > asking.
>
> Sorry, I meant string_hash(). Your v5-0002 changes the way hashing
> works for cstrings, and that means it's no longer equivalent to
> hash_bytes with strlen. That's probably fine, but someone might assume
> that they are equivalent.

That's a good point. It might be best to leave string_hash where it is
and remove the comment that it's the default. Then the new function (I
like the name cstring_hash) can live in dynahash.c where it's obvious
what "default" means.