Re: Reduce build times of pg_trgm GIN indexes

On 15.04.26 13:06, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 14/04/2026 10:02, David Geier wrote:
>>> I didn't do it for performance, but because I find the function easier
>>> to read that way. We could change it back.
>>>
>>> It's a pretty scary thought that a compiler might misoptimize that
>>> though. In the same function we have 'nullFlags', too, as a local
>>> variable, even before this commit. Not sure why Coverity doesn't
>>> complain about that.
>>>
>>>> /*
>>>>   * PointerGetDatum
>>>>   *        Returns datum representation for a pointer.
>>>>   */
>>>> static inline Datum
>>>> PointerGetDatum(const void *X)
>>>> {
>>>>      return (Datum) (uintptr_t) X;
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Hmm, is that 'const' incorrect? This function doesn't modify *X, but the
>>> resulting address will be used to modify it. Maybe changing it to non-
>>> const "void *X" would give Coverity a hint.
> 
> This was briefly discussed when PointerGetDatum() was changed from a 
> macro to a static inline function [1]. On that email, Peter pointed out 
> that the compiler was doing the same deduction that Coverity did now, 
> i.e. that if you pass the Datum returned by PointerGetDatum(&foo) to a 
> function, it cannot change *foo. I'm surprised we dismissed that worry 
> so quickly. If the compiler optimizes based on that assumption, you can 
> get incorrect code.

I don't think this is in evidence.  AFAICT, it's just Coverity that is 
complaining here, which is its right, but the code is not incorrect.