Re: FunctionCallN improvement. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: FunctionCallN improvement.
Date
Msg-id 1107212417.12465.50.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to FunctionCallN improvement.  (a_ogawa <a_ogawa@hi-ho.ne.jp>)
Responses Re: FunctionCallN improvement.
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On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:38 +0900, a_ogawa wrote:
> (b)Define the macro that initialize FunctionCallInfoData, and use it 
> instead of MemSet in all FunctionCallN, DirectFunctionCallN, 
> OidFunctionCallN.
>  This macro is the following. 
> 
> #define InitFunctionCallInfoData(Fcinfo, Flinfo, Nargs)     \
>     do {                                                    \
>         (Fcinfo)->flinfo = Flinfo;                          \
>         (Fcinfo)->context = NULL;                           \
>         (Fcinfo)->resultinfo = NULL;                        \
>         (Fcinfo)->isnull = false;                           \
>         (Fcinfo)->nargs = Nargs;                            \
>         MemSet((Fcinfo)->argnull, 0, Nargs * sizeof(bool)); \
>     } while(0)
> 
> I think that plan(b) is better, because source code consistency 
> and efficiency improve.

I agree; I think the macro is a nice improvement to readability. It
would be good to see some benchmarks once the patch is written to verify
that this really does improve performance, but I think it's a good idea.

-Neil




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