Boszormenyi Zoltan <z...@cybertec.at> writes:
> 2013-01-01 17:18 keltezéssel, Magnus Hagander írta:
>> That way we can get around the whole need for changing memory allocation 
>> across all the 
>> frontends, no? Like the attached.

> Sure it's simpler but then the consistent look of the code is lost.

> What about the other patch to unify pg_malloc and friends?
> Basically all client code boils down to
>      fprintf(stderr, ...)
> in different disguise in their error reporting, so that patch can
> also be simplified but it seems that the atexit() - either explicitly
> or hidden behind InitPostgresFrontend() - cannot be avoided.

Meh.  I find it seriously wrongheaded that something as minor as an
escape_quotes() function should get to dictate both malloc wrappers
and error recovery handling throughout every program that might use it.
I like Magnus' version a lot better than that idea.

A bigger issue that I notice with this code is that it's only correct in
backend-safe encodings, as the comment mentions.  If we're going to be
putting it into frontend programs, how safe is that going to be?

                        regards, tom lane


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