Bryan Green <dbryan.green@gmail.com> writes:
> One notable behavioral change: check hooks using GUC_EXTRA_IS_CONTEXT
> now use palloc() instead of guc_malloc(). The old approach with
> guc_malloc() allowed check hooks to return false on OOM, letting the
> caller handle it at the appropriate error level. With palloc() an OOM
> throws an immediate ERROR. This seemed like an acceptable tradeoff
Why? It seems both inconsistent and unsafe.
regards, tom lane