pgsql: Simplify newNode() by removing special cases

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Simplify newNode() by removing special cases
Date: 2023-12-19 10:12:05
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Simplify newNode() by removing special cases

- Remove MemoryContextAllocZeroAligned(). It was supposed to be a
faster version of MemoryContextAllocZero(), but modern compilers turn
the MemSetLoop() into a call to memset() anyway, making it more or
less identical to MemoryContextAllocZero(). That was the only user of
MemSetTest, MemSetLoop, so remove those too, as well as palloc0fast().

- Convert newNode() to a static inline function. When this was
originally originally written, it was written as a macro because
testing showed that gcc didn't inline the size check as we
intended. Modern compiler versions do, and now that it just calls
palloc0() there is no size-check to inline anyway.

One nice effect is that the palloc0() takes one less argument than
MemoryContextAllocZeroAligned(), which saves a few instructions in the
callers of newNode().

Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane, John Naylor, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b51f1fa7-7e6a-4ecc-936d-90a8a1659e7c@iki.fi

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3c080fb4fad3e1c1e34f74a7b84a443137adc9f2

Modified Files
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src/backend/nodes/Makefile | 1 -
src/backend/nodes/meson.build | 1 -
src/backend/nodes/nodes.c | 31 -------------------------------
src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c | 38 --------------------------------------
src/include/c.h | 24 ------------------------
src/include/nodes/nodes.h | 39 +++++++++------------------------------
src/include/utils/palloc.h | 14 --------------
7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)

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