Re: pg_dump vs malloc

Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of mié jun 22 11:25:43 -0400 2011:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 21:07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> >> I came across a situation today with a pretty bad crash of pg_dump,
> >> due to not checking the return code from malloc(). When looking
> >> through the code, it seems there are a *lot* of places in pg_dump that
> >> doesn't check the malloc return code.
> >
> >> But we do have a pg_malloc() function in there - but from what I can
> >> tell it's only used very sparsely?
> >
> >> Shouldn't we be using that one more or less everywhere
> >
> > Yup.  Have at it.
>
> Something along the line of this?

Huh, do you really need a new file for the four new functions? What's
wrong with common.c?

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