Re: [PATCH 2/5] Make relpathbackend return a statically result instead of palloc()'ing it - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/5] Make relpathbackend return a statically result instead of palloc()'ing it
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Msg-id 27957.1357677907@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH 2/5] Make relpathbackend return a statically result instead of palloc()'ing it  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCH 2/5] Make relpathbackend return a statically result instead of palloc()'ing it
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> To what extent do you want palloc et al. emulation? Provide actual pools
> or just make redirect to malloc and provide the required symbols (at the
> very least CurrentMemoryContext)?

I don't see any need for memory pools, at least not for frontend
applications of the currently envisioned levels of complexity.  I concur
with Alvaro's suggestion about just #define'ing them to malloc/free ---
or maybe better, pg_malloc/free so that we can have a failure-checking
wrapper.

Not sure how we ought to handle elog, but maybe we can put off that bit
of design until we have a more concrete use-case.
        regards, tom lane



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