Re: xmalloc => pg_malloc

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> pg_calloc (randomly different API for pg_malloc0)
>
>> Do we need this?
>
> I thought about getting rid of it, but there are some dozens of calls
> scattered across several files, so I wasn't sure it was worth it.
> Anybody else have an opinion?

I think having more than 1 function that does the same thing is
generally a bad idea. It sounds like it is going to cause confusion
and provide no real benefit.

>
>> I wonder whether the same set of functions should also be available in the
>> backend with ereport(EC_OUT_OF_MEMORY, ...) behaviour as well.
>
> In the backend, you almost always ought to be using palloc instead.
> The only places where it's really appropriate to be using malloc
> directly are where you don't want an error thrown for out-of-memory.
> So I think providing these in the backend would do little except to
> encourage bad programming.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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