Thread: Re: [HACKERS] bug in GUC

Re: [HACKERS] bug in GUC

From
James Robinson
Date:
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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