Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> The problem is that it calls pg_malloc() which is an executable-specific
> function. Some of the bin/* executables define it as calling exit(1)
> when malloc() returns NULL, some call it with exit(EXIT_FAILURE)
> which happens to be 1 but still can be different from the constant 1.
> Some executables only define pg_malloc0() but not pg_malloc().
It seems simpler to have the escape_quotes utility function in port just
not use pg_malloc at all, have it return NULL or similar failure
indicator when malloc() fails, and then the caller decides what to do.
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