On 07/12/2018 10:08 AM, samuel.coulee wrote:
Hi,
In the PG source code function "write_relcache_init_file()", I found that
the whole 'Relation' structs were directly written into the file
'pg_internal.init'. This brings some binary differences of that file, if we
run pg_initdb multiple times, because the struct 'Relation' contains some
pointer fields.
And my question is : Could we clear the pointer values in 'Relation' before
calling write_item(...)?
No benefit regarding function or performance, just for binary
compatibility...
Binary compatibility with what? Can you describe a scenario where this
actually matters?
regards
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