On 10/22/13, 3:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > In order to avoid having to clutter stuff like that with #ifdef FRONTENDs, > I'm now thinking we should use exactly the same names for the frontend and > backend versions, ie psprintf() and pvsprintf(). The main reason for > considering a pg_ prefix for the frontend versions was to avoid cluttering > application namespace; but it's already the case that we don't expect > libpgcommon to be namespace clean.
While this is attractive, the same logic would suggest that we rename pg_malloc() to palloc(), and that sounds wrong. The frontend and backend functions do have different freeing semantics. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
