Re: Duplicated assignment of slot_name in walsender.c

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Duplicated assignment of slot_name in walsender.c
Date: 2015-10-21 21:53:23
Message-ID: 20151021215323.GE3391@alvherre.pgsql
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Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-10-21 17:21:25 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > I think the first assignment is also pointless -- I mean can't we just
> > use MyReplicationSlot->data.name in both places where slot_name is used?
>
> Makes the lines a bit long. strlen(NameStr(MyReplicationSlot->data.name)) ...

Meh. Assign the strlen somewhere?

> > In the same routine, it seems wasteful to be doing strlen() twice for
> > every string sent over the wire.
>
> That seems fairly insignificant. For one this is a rather infrequent and
> expensive operation,

OK, I can buy that.

> for another every decent compiler can optimize those away. Note that
> those duplicate strlen() calls are there in a lot of places in
> walsender.c

It can? Tom has repeatedly argue the opposite, in the past.

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