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-rw-r--r--src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c18
-rw-r--r--src/include/lib/pairingheap.h3
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c b/src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c
index 0aef8a88f1b..fa8431f7946 100644
--- a/src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c
+++ b/src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c
@@ -44,12 +44,26 @@ pairingheap_allocate(pairingheap_comparator compare, void *arg)
pairingheap *heap;
heap = (pairingheap *) palloc(sizeof(pairingheap));
+ pairingheap_initialize(heap, compare, arg);
+
+ return heap;
+}
+
+/*
+ * pairingheap_initialize
+ *
+ * Same as pairingheap_allocate(), but initializes the pairing heap in-place
+ * rather than allocating a new chunk of memory. Useful to store the pairing
+ * heap in a shared memory.
+ */
+void
+pairingheap_initialize(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_comparator compare,
+ void *arg)
+{
heap->ph_compare = compare;
heap->ph_arg = arg;
heap->ph_root = NULL;
-
- return heap;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/include/lib/pairingheap.h b/src/include/lib/pairingheap.h
index 3c57d3fda1b..567586f2ecf 100644
--- a/src/include/lib/pairingheap.h
+++ b/src/include/lib/pairingheap.h
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ typedef struct pairingheap
extern pairingheap *pairingheap_allocate(pairingheap_comparator compare,
void *arg);
+extern void pairingheap_initialize(pairingheap *heap,
+ pairingheap_comparator compare,
+ void *arg);
extern void pairingheap_free(pairingheap *heap);
extern void pairingheap_add(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *node);
extern pairingheap_node *pairingheap_first(pairingheap *heap);