Re: brin: Remove duplicate initialization in initialize_brin_buildstate()

On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi Hacker,
>
> Just noticed a redundant assignment in initialize_brin_buildstate():
>
> ```
> static BrinBuildState *
> initialize_brin_buildstate(Relation idxRel, BrinRevmap *revmap,
> BlockNumber pagesPerRange, BlockNumber tablePages)
> {
> BrinBuildState *state;
> BlockNumber lastRange = 0;
>
> state = palloc_object(BrinBuildState);
>
> <…omit some lines…>
>
> // Later, b437571 added the same again. This patch deletes these 3 lines.
> state->bs_context = CurrentMemoryContext;
> state->bs_emptyTuple = NULL;
> state->bs_emptyTupleLen = 0;
>
> // Added by dae761a first
> /* Remember the memory context to use for an empty tuple, if needed. */
> state->bs_context = CurrentMemoryContext;
> state->bs_emptyTuple = NULL;
> state->bs_emptyTupleLen = 0;
> ```
>
> So, filing a trivial patch to eliminate the redundancy.

Thank you for the patch! It looks good to me, so I’ve marked the entry
as Ready for Committer.

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Best regards,
Shinya Kato
NTT OSS Center