David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 02:15, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> The primary case where I personally rely on that style is when adding a >> new field to a struct. Currently it's possible to grep for some existing >> field and add the new one beside it. Leaving out initializations by >> relying on side-effects of makeNode makes that far riskier.
> FWIW, I mostly grep for makeNode(NameOfNode) as I'm a bit mistrusting > of if the random existing field name that I pick to grep for will > properly showing me all the locations I should touch. I tend to do that too, but it's not a foolproof thing either, since some places use random memset's for the purpose. regards, tom lane