Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Patch attached. Also adds a malloc() check that Neil wanted.
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>Er, what on God's green earth is elog.c doing malloc'ing stuff at all?
>This should be a palloc in the ErrorContext; that's what it's for.
>As is, this code is guaranteed to fail under out-of-memory conditions.
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Well, it's a one-off allocation into a static variable, if that makes
any difference. If not, I accept the rebuke :-)
I first published the ancestor of this code many months ago, and nobody
has objected until now. But there is always room for improvement I
guess, including in my own knowledge. I'll be happy to change it if need be.
cheers
andrew
