Re: reducing the footprint of ScanKeyword (was Re: Large writable variables)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg(at)bec(dot)de>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: reducing the footprint of ScanKeyword (was Re: Large writable variables)
Date: 2019-01-09 19:58:54
Message-ID: 12929.1547063934@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2019-01-09 14:44:24 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> /* fast lookup only possible if original oid still assigned */
>> - if (id >= FirstGenbkiObjectId)
>> + if (id > fmgr_last_builtin_oid)
>> return NULL;

> An extern reference here will make the code a bit less efficient, but
> it's probably not worth generating a header with a define for it
> instead...

Yeah, also that would be significantly more fragile, in that it'd
be hard to be sure where that OID had propagated to when rebuilding.
We haven't chosen to make fmgr_nbuiltins a #define either, and I think
it's best to treat this the same way.

regards, tom lane

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