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(-)



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