Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> There are 70+ calls of malloc in the backend in the form of
> type* foo = malloc(sizeof(...));
> if(!foo)
> elog(ERROR, "could not allocate memory");
> which is a bit annoying to write at times. Would somebody argue against
> introducing a function that does the above named xmalloc() or malloc_or_die()?
99% of the time, you should be using palloc if that's the behavior you
want. I think most of the malloc calls are in places where we want a
bit more control over the error response.
regards, tom lane