Re: Fix uninitialized xl_running_xacts padding

From: Alexander Kuzmenkov <akuzmenkov(at)tigerdata(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin(dot)bonnefoy(at)datadoghq(dot)com>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix uninitialized xl_running_xacts padding
Date: 2026-03-11 10:45:28
Message-ID: CALzhyqzKTRVsQGj+qDDRVs3Oo0EvffuQvVO0v4rbpWU=SoXKug@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> +1 for initializing all padding in WAL records. In fact I thought that
> we already did that. (Except in this case, apparently)

I found 42 exceptions like this. See the attached patch, it
initializes some WAL records and removes the WAL-related Valgrind
suppressions. The regression tests pass under Valgrind with these
changes.

As discussed above, I used memset instead of = { 0 }. I could observe
the latter to not initialize the padding on some configurations.

Attachment Content-Type Size
initialize-wal-record-padding.patch text/x-patch 13.3 KB

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