Re: errbacktrace

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: errbacktrace
Date: 2019-09-30 18:16:47
Message-ID: f666e360-aec1-c7d0-fb0e-03a9a323814b@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-09-27 17:50, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Sep-13, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> On 2019-Aug-20, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>>> The memory management of that seems too complicated. The "extra"
>>> mechanism of the check/assign hooks only supports one level of malloc.
>>> Using a List seems impossible. I don't know if you can safely do a
>>> malloc-ed array of malloc-ed strings either.
>>
>> Here's an idea -- have the check/assign hooks create a different
>> representation, which is a single guc_malloc'ed chunk that is made up of
>> every function name listed in the GUC, separated by \0. That can be
>> scanned at error time comparing the function name with each piece.
>
> Peter, would you like me to clean this up for commit, or do you prefer
> to keep authorship and get it done yourself?

If you want to finish it using the idea from your previous message,
please feel free. I won't get to it this week.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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