Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 01:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> It might be better to keep CurrentMemoryContext pointing at a temp >> context, and translate malloc() to MemoryContextAlloc(function_context) >> rather than just palloc(). (Of course you could hide this in a macro, >> maybe falloc()?)
> Are there really enough short-lived pallocs that this is worth the > trouble? Not sure, but it seems like at least as straightforward a translation as the other way. More to the point, it makes clear the difference between what is meant to be a long-lived data structure and what isn't. > One potential issue is that there are plenty of places where > we'd want to falloc(), but don't have the function easily available > (e.g. in the parser). Why not? You'd need to keep the context-to-use in a static variable, but that's no great difficulty considering that plpgsql function parsing needn't be re-entrant. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])