Re: Proposal: add new API to stringinfo

On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 09:53:09AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> Saying that, having more control over the initial
>> size used for a StringInfo could provide better practices in some
>> cases. This reminds me of the ALLOCSET_SMALL_* fields in memutils.h,
>> hence an idea would be an initStringInfoExtended() that you could
>> combine with two #define two: one for the "default" of 1024 and a
>> second one for "small", like 32 or 64 (?), that can be used at will
>> with the new API call. Then you could switch initStringInfo() to
>> become a macro of the new "extended" call. Just an idea.
>
> But then the extensions that use stringinfo.c need to be recompiled?

New APIs are materials for HEAD, so recompilation needs to happen
anyway. Using a macro makes things slightly simpler and it would not
break unnecessarily the compilation of existing extensions.
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Michael