Re: Avoid unecessary MemSet call (src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c)

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 3:00 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Call me a trogdolyte, but I don't follow how it's an improvement.
> It looks to me like an entirely random change that doesn't get rid
> of assumptions about what the bits are, it just replaces one set of
> assumptions with a different set.  Moreover, the new set of assumptions
> may include "there are no padding bits in here", which is mighty fragile
> and hard to verify.  So I frankly do not find this a stylistic improvement.

Ditto.

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Robert Haas
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