Re: [PATCH 2/5] Make relpathbackend return a statically result instead of palloc()'ing it

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Make relpathbackend return a statically result instead of palloc()'ing it
Date: 2013-01-08 20:38:20
Message-ID: 20130108203820.GC9218@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Uhm, we don't have & need palloc support and I don't think
> > relpathbackend() is a good justification for adding it.
>
> I've said from the very beginning of this effort that it would be
> impossible to share any meaningful amount of code between frontend and
> backend environments without adding some sort of emulation of
> palloc/pfree/elog. I think this patch is just making the code uglier
> and more fragile to put off the inevitable, and that we'd be better
> served to bite the bullet and do that.

As far as this patch is concerned, I think it's sufficient to do

#define palloc(x) malloc(x)
#define pfree(x) free(x)

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