On Jun 24, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> So, what you are saying is that there's no need for the functions I
> suggested and that a palloc using the TopMemoryContext will guarantee
> correct behavior on "out of memory"?
Perhaps a section regarding proper memory management code in the
backend could be written , say, somewhere in the internals document
around the coding conventions chapter:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/source.html
I myself don't have a clue, not being a backend hacker, so I'll just
slink back to my cave.
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