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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2019 1:46 AM
> Right. I think that in general it's bad practice for an initializer to not specify all fields/elements of the
target.
> It is okay in the specific case that we're substituting for a memset(..., 0, ...).
> Perhaps we could make this explicit by using a coding style like
>
>/* in c.h or some such place: */
>#define INIT_ALL_ZEROES {0}
>
>/* in code: */
> Datum values[N] = INIT_ALL_ZEROES;
The patch has been updated per your suggestion. Now using macros for these partial initialisers.
Please see attachment.
Kind Regards
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Peter Smith
Fujitsu Australia
