On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 21:59, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > There are certain parts of code that laboriously initialize every field > of a struct to (some spelling of) zero, even though the whole struct was > just zeroed (by makeNode() or memset()) a few lines earlier. Besides > being redundant, I find this hard to read in some situations because > it's then very hard to tell what is different between different cases or > branches.
Just for information, there was a similar proposal in [1]. There were some arguments for and against the idea. Might be worth reviewing. David [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFjFpRdmx2oWdCrYcQuk9CZ7S9iTrKSziC%3D%3D6j0Agw4jdmvLng%40mail.gmail.com#ff36253217d67d5531f5b2017a0dbfd0
