Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 6:31 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
>> Uh, why is it okay that we don't zero-initialize memory used for
>> things like PARALLEL_KEY_BUFFER_USAGE and PARALLEL_KEY_WAL_USAGE?
> Ping? I'm pretty sure that this needs to be fixed.
That scares me too, but how come things aren't falling over
routinely? Can we even make a test case where it breaks?
I think I'd personally prefer to treat such memory more like we
treat palloc'd memory, ie there's *not* a guarantee of zero
initialization and indeed testing builds intentionally clobber it.
regards, tom lane
