Re: Faster StrNCpy

"Strong, David" <david(dot)strong(at)unisys(dot)com> writes:
> Just wondering - are any of these cases where a memcpy() would work
> just as well? Or are you not sure that the source string is at least
> 64 bytes in length?

In most cases, we're pretty sure that it's *not* --- it'll just be a
palloc'd C string.

I'm disinclined to fool with the restriction that namestrcpy zero-pad
Name values, because they might end up on disk, and allowing random
memory contents to get written out is ungood from a security point of
view. However, it's entirely possible that it'd be a bit faster to do
a MemSet followed by strlcpy than to use strncpy for zero-padding.

regards, tom lane