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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr.shulgin@zalando.de>
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Subject: Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays
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Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr.shulgin@zalando.de> writes:
> Not related to the diff v6..v7, but shouldn't we throw additionally a
> memset() with '\0' before calling pfree():

I don't see the point of that.  In debug builds CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY will
take care of it, and in non-debug builds I don't see why we'd expend
the cycles.

			regards, tom lane