On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 12:50 PM Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 5:29 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > While going through the code I noticed that the nTapes member in > > SharedSort is unused. This is just initialized with nworkers but > > never used. The attached patch removes this variable. > > > > We could have used that variable for an assert like > Assert(state->worker <= shared->nTapes) in worker_freeze_result_tape() > before accessing shared->tapes[state->worker] = output; as sometimes > state->worker is being set to -1. But, it seems like we reach > worker_freeze_result_tape(), only when WORKER(state) is true. So, we > don't need that extra Assert and removing nTapes variable makes sense > to me.
Right, but anyway IMHO adding extra shared memory variables for just and assert purposes doesn't make sense. > Patch looks good to me. Regression tests make check and make > check-world ran successfully. Thanks for looking into this. -- Regards, Dilip Kumar EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com