Re: oid2name cleanup

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Neil Conway wrote:
> Currently, contrib/oid2name doesn't bother to free() the memory that it
> malloc()'s. This isn't too serious (because oid2name is a short-lived
> utility, so the memory will soon be returned to the OS on process
> termination), but I still think it's poor style.
>
> This patch changes oid2name so that it allocates memory on the stack
> where possible and free()s the remaining heap-allocated memory. The
> patch also fixes a typo a comment and adds 'const' qualifiers to a few
> 'char *' function parameters.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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> Neil Conway <neilconway(at)rogers(dot)com>
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