Expand palloc/pg_malloc API for more type safety
This adds additional variants of palloc, pg_malloc, etc. that
encapsulate common usage patterns and provide more type safety.
Specifically, this adds palloc_object(), palloc_array(), and
repalloc_array(), which take the type name of the object to be
allocated as its first argument and cast the return as a pointer to
that type. There are also palloc0_object() and palloc0_array()
variants for initializing with zero, and pg_malloc_*() variants of all
of the above.
Inspired by the talloc library.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bb755632-2a43-d523-36f8-a1e7a389a907@enterprisedb.com
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2016055a92f26d648aba9f66d26cc0bcd1619eff
Modified Files
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src/include/common/fe_memutils.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/utils/palloc.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
