Re: BUG #16190: The usage of NULL pointer in refint.c

Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:39:36AM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
>> We checked the code in file “refint.c” and there is one error occurring in
>> line 636.

> It could be better to switch all that to not use directly system
> calls, and rely properly on a high-level memory context with
> palloc-like allocations.

Yeah, if somebody wanted to fix this, the right way is to replace
these malloc calls with pallocs. Some investigation would be needed
about which context to use.

> ... There could be also an argument to just
> remove the module per the lack of attention it is getting, though it
> is still useful as an example of use for SPI, and the docs mention
> it for that.

The regression tests use refint too. Still, it's not production-grade
code by any means, and I'm not sure if there's much point in making
it so. I won't stand in the way if somebody else wants to ;-)

regards, tom lane