Re: Safe memory allocation functions

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> So how about something like
>
> #define ALLOCFLAG_HUGE                  0x01
> #define ALLOCFLAG_NO_ERROR_ON_OOM       0x02
> void *
> MemoryContextAllocFlags(MemoryContext context, Size size, int flags);

That sounds good, although personally I'd rather have the name be
something like MemoryContextAllocExtended; we have precedent for using
"Extended" for this sort of thing elsewhere.  Also, I'd suggest trying
to keep the flag name short, e.g. ALLOC_HUGE and ALLOC_NO_OOM (or
ALLOC_SOFT_FAIL?).

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