Re: define pg_structiszero(addr, s, r)

Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>

From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-11-01T07:44:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 04:36:45PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 08:21:50PM +1300, David Rowley wrote:
> > My vote is to just revert this usage of the function. Anything more
> > elaborate would need to check pointer alignment before using any types
> > larger than char. The previous code does not need to do that because
> > the page is going to be at least MAXALIGNed.
> 
> Fine, here you go.  The attached reverts back this part in bufpage.c
> to what it was in 49d6c7d8daba.

Thanks! Worth to add a comment as to why pg_memory_is_all_zeros() should not
be used here?

Regards,

-- 
Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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Commits

  1. Use pg_memory_is_all_zeros() in PageIsVerifiedExtended()

  2. Optimize pg_memory_is_all_zeros() in memutils.h

  3. Remove use of pg_memory_is_all_zeros() in bufpage.c

  4. Add pg_memory_is_all_zeros() in memutils.h