On 2018-Dec-28, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Dec-28, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:05:34AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > The server code allocates arrays, but that's fine because that code is
> > > recompiled. Extensions only pass pointers around -- they don't create
> > > any additional arrays.
> >
> > There are many exotic extensions which could be using sizeof(PGPROC)
> > as that's a popular structure,
>
> Can you show one instance of this?
I looked at
https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling/blob/master/pg_wait_sampling.c
https://github.com/citusdata/citus/search?q=pgproc&unscoped_q=pgproc
and skimmed a few others can't find any instance where the full struct
is used, as opposed to just a pointer to it.
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