Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > 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. We already crossed that bridge, though, by defining "palloc" in frontend environments to mean pg_malloc. I'm doubtful that insisting on different names is going to result in anything except #ifdef clutter. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers