Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Modify pg_dump to use error-free memory allocation macros. This

Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It is not possible to just link the old common.c into pg_restore and
> >> pg_dumpall because it contains calls to pg_dump-only functions.
> >>
> >> Ideas?
>
> > The only other idea I have is to keep most functions in the mis-named
> > common.c and move the memory functions into dumpmem.c and dumpmem.h and
> > include that in the other C files, but that doesn't help with long-term
> > code clarity.
>
> I don't think there is any "long-term code clarity" gain here that is
> worth the maintenance headache. Please put the existing functions back
> where they were. Inventing new files for the new code seems fine.

Well, you do a lot more backpatching than I do, so I am willing to do as
you request, but looking at the git history for common.c, I don't see a
lot of backpatching for this file.

Basically, if we keep the existing functions in common.c, we are
deciding that it is never worth moving C functions to new C files for
source code clarity. I was not sure we had made that decision in the
past.

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