Re: BUG #14228: replication slot catalog_xmin not cleared on slot reuse

On 2016-07-28 14:22:29 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > I think it'd be better if we explicitly zeroed .data - that way the
> > likelihood of future bugs of the same ilk is smaller.
>
> Okay, I have spent some time looking at all the fields here, and their
> significance before reaching this code path in ReplicationSlotCreate,
> but did not find any hole if slot->data is zeroed. So here is an
> updated patch. You could get rid of all the field initializations I
> have done for slot->data, but I think that's cheap to keep them.

Pushed without the additional initializations - they're imo more
confusing than helpful - and with some more reordering to match the
struct order.

Regards,

Andres