On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:26:54PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2020-01-06 21:12:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> WFM. There are probably more elegant ways to do it than to drop this
>> stuff into TopMemoryContext, but this is surely better than unchecked
>> malloc calls.
>
> Yea, it's certainly better than the current situation. An incremental
> improvement would be to do the allocations in a separate contect, for easier
> debugging should there ever be a leak...
Sure. I am not sure if that's worth the extra work though, so I would
just be tempted to commit the patch that moves the allocation to
TopMemoryContext and call it a day. Any objections to that?
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Michael