Re: C Function Memory Management - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martin French
Subject Re: C Function Memory Management
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Msg-id OF1966B1DE.9C8C2699-ON80257AD2.0055AC07-80257AD2.0055DEA8@romaxtech.com
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In response to Re: C Function Memory Management  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: C Function Memory Management  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>
> One thing to know about it is that repalloc re-sizes the given chunk
> while keeping it in the same memory context it was originally allocated
> in (ie, CurrentMemoryContext doesn't matter).  This may not matter much
> if you're only dealing with allocations that just live as long as the
> current function call --- but if you're trying to preserve data across
> calls, it's critical to know.
>
>          regards, tom lane

Thanks for this Tom, I'll keep that in mind for future functions.

In this particular implementation, it's not necessary to preserve the data once the function is complete.

So out of curiosity, what would be your approach for data preservation cross call?

Cheers

Martin
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