Re: Can we remove extra memset in BloomInitPage, GinInitPage and SpGistInitPage when we have it in PageInit? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mahendra Singh Thalor
Subject Re: Can we remove extra memset in BloomInitPage, GinInitPage and SpGistInitPage when we have it in PageInit?
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Msg-id CAKYtNAps4t72VYP1wOu6zYTLmO-bwAEBkaitjxcj7ufOyNBB3Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Can we remove extra memset in BloomInitPage, GinInitPage and SpGistInitPage when we have it in PageInit?  (Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Can we remove extra memset in BloomInitPage, GinInitPage and SpGistInitPage when we have it in PageInit?  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 10:16, Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are memset-ting the special space page that's already set to zeros
> by PageInit in BloomInitPage, GinInitPage and SpGistInitPage. We have
> already removed the memset after PageInit in gistinitpage (see the
> comment there).  Unless I'm missing something, IMO they are redundant.
> I'm attaching a small patch that gets rid of the extra memset calls.
>
>
> While on it, I removed MAXALIGN(sizeof(SpGistPageOpaqueData)) in
> SpGistInitPage because the PageInit will anyways align the
> specialSize. This change is inline with other places (such as
> BloomInitPage, brin_page_init GinInitPage, gistinitpage,
> _hash_pageinit and so on) where we just pass the size of special space
> data structure.
>
> I didn't see any regression test failure on my dev system with the
> attached patch.
>
>
> Thoughts?

Your changes look to fine me and I am also not getting any failure. I
think we should back-patch all the branches.

Patch is applying to all the branches(till v95) and there is no failure.

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Thanks and Regards
Mahendra Singh Thalor
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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