Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> 2012-11-21 14:19 keltezéssel, Alvaro Herrera írta:
> >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.
>
> $ find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep pg_malloc | grep -v "^pg_malloc" | wc -l
> 277
>
> Too much work for little gain.
I probably wrote the above in a confusing way. I am not suggesting that
pg_malloc is changed in any way.
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