Hi, As promised here's a patch to provide palloc emulation for frontend-ish environments.
The patch: - makes palloc() into a real function so CurrentMemoryContext doesn't need to be provided - provides common pg_(malloc,malloc0, realloc, strdup, free) wrappers and removes various versions of those across different utilities - removes ugly palloc redefinery for frontend use of backend code (dirmod.c) Controversial/Unclear things: - palloc[0] are currently copies of the MemoryContextAlloc[Zero] functions to preclude performance regressions, imo the level of duplication is ok though - the common memory management is implemented in [pg]port/palloc.[ch], I am not too happy with the name and location - pgport/palloc.c is only built in the backend, not sure if there is a nicer way to do this from a make POV - the different versions of pg_malloc et al used different error signaling methods, I've settled on fprintf(stderr, _("out of memory\n")); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); Results in a nice net removal of code: 37 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 621 deletions(-) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers