> > I don't think there is any benefit to this. But, someone else might > > be able to chime in and say why we need this functionality. -- justin > > how do you handle out of memory? > > palloc is not permitted to return NULL for performance reasons. (well > that plus the massive amounts of legacy code) > > of course this whole topic is a mess and really wants proper exception > handling... which we don't have in a convenient form in C :)
palloc() will never return NULL? Now I'm curious how out-of-memory is handled. I guess I (wrongly) assumed palloc() would return NULL the way malloc() does. *shrug* -aaron
