Should we use MemSet or {0} for struct initialization?

From: Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Should we use MemSet or {0} for struct initialization?
Date: 2023-08-31 08:32:59
Message-ID: CAMbWs490gJf5A=ydqyjh+Z8mVQa_foTGtcmBtHGLra0aOwLWHQ@mail.gmail.com
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While working on a bug in expandRecordVariable() I noticed that in the
switch statement for case RTE_SUBQUERY we initialize struct ParseState
with {0} while for case RTE_CTE we do that with MemSet. I understand
that there is nothing wrong with this, just cannot get away with the
inconsistency inside the same function (sorry for the nitpicking).

Do we have a preference for how to initialize structures? From 9fd45870
it seems that we prefer to {0}. So here is a trivial patch doing that.
And with a rough scan the MemSet calls in pg_stat_get_backend_subxact()
can also be replaced with {0}, so include that in the patch too.

Thanks
Richard

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v1-0001-Replace-more-MemSet-calls-with-struct-initialization.patch application/octet-stream 1.9 KB

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