Re: Should we use MemSet or {0} for struct initialization?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should we use MemSet or {0} for struct initialization?
Date: 2023-09-19 09:37:30
Message-ID: 0db914aa-cb4c-d399-ce55-5acab65e34c7@eisentraut.org
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On 31.08.23 10:32, Richard Guo wrote:
> While working on a bug in expandRecordVariable() I noticed that in the
> switch statement for case RTE_SUBQUERY we initialize struct ParseState
> with {0} while for case RTE_CTE we do that with MemSet.  I understand
> that there is nothing wrong with this, just cannot get away with the
> inconsistency inside the same function (sorry for the nitpicking).
>
> Do we have a preference for how to initialize structures?  From 9fd45870
> it seems that we prefer to {0}.  So here is a trivial patch doing that.
> And with a rough scan the MemSet calls in pg_stat_get_backend_subxact()
> can also be replaced with {0}, so include that in the patch too.

The first part (parse_target.c) was already addressed by e0e492e5a9. I
have applied the second part (pgstatfuncs.c).

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