Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Implement table partitioning.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org) wrote:
>> Implement table partitioning.
>
> My compiler apparently doesn't care for this:
>
> .../src/backend/catalog/partition.c: In function ‘partition_rbound_cmp’:
> .../src/backend/catalog/partition.c:1787:13: warning: ‘cmpval’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> if (cmpval == 0 && lower1 != lower2)

So, apparently your compiler doesn't recognize that the loop always
has to execute at least once, because we don't support a table
partitioned on zero attributes. If you initialize cmpval to 0 at the
top of the function, does that fix it?

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