On 2019-Aug-20, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The memory management of that seems too complicated. The "extra"
> mechanism of the check/assign hooks only supports one level of malloc.
> Using a List seems impossible. I don't know if you can safely do a
> malloc-ed array of malloc-ed strings either.
Here's an idea -- have the check/assign hooks create a different
representation, which is a single guc_malloc'ed chunk that is made up of
every function name listed in the GUC, separated by \0. That can be
scanned at error time comparing the function name with each piece.
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