Re: Small patch: Change calling convention for ShmemInitHash (and fix possible bug)

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Aleksander Alekseev
<a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> I would like to continue discussion regarding changing calling
> convention for ShmemInitHash procedure:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoZm=Uowt8a_XaSfooGwufeeLJ861NTADiCEOpyFehV8Wg@mail.gmail.com
>
> Currently this procedure has two arguments --- init_size and max_size.
> But since shared hash tables have fixed size there is little sense to
> pass two arguments. In fact currently ShmemInitHash is always called
> with init_size == max_size with only one exception, InitLocks procedure
> (see lock.c), which I believe is actually a bug.

No, I think we left it that way on purpose.  I don't remember the
discussion exactly, but I don't think it's hurting anything.

> Patch is attached.
>
> What do you think?

I don't think this actually buys us anything.

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