Re: xmalloc => pg_malloc

On Tue, Oct  2, 2012 at 12:02:13PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> While looking around to fix the pg_malloc(0) issue, I noticed that
> various other pieces of code such as pg_basebackup have essentially
> identical functions, except they're called xmalloc().  I propose to
> standardize all these things on this set of names:
> 
>     pg_malloc
>     pg_malloc0    (for malloc-and-zero behavior)
>     pg_calloc    (randomly different API for pg_malloc0)
>     pg_realloc
>     pg_free
>     pg_strdup
> 
> Any objections?

Please standarize.  I am totally confused by the many memory
implementations we have.  (Pg_upgrade uses pg_malloc().)

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