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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