Thread: change palloc to malloc

Hi,

Is it possible to convert palloc back to malloc?
If so, what should I do to make the change?

Many Thanks,
Hai

    
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Nguyen Hai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to convert palloc back to malloc?
> If so, what should I do to make the change?

You can, but palloc is automatically freed at the end of a query, while
malloc has to be freed in the code.  Why do you want to make the
switch?

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On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:29 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Nguyen Hai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it possible to convert palloc back to malloc?
> > If so, what should I do to make the change?
> 
> You can, but palloc is automatically freed at the end of a query, while
> malloc has to be freed in the code.  Why do you want to make the
> switch?

Right. And it's definitely faster use palloc() than malloc(). I think
the current code is really based on memory contexts and I'm sure that
(strange:-) s/palloc/malloc/ is not enough. 
Karel 
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