On 2019-09-27 17:50, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Sep-13, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> On 2019-Aug-20, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>>> The memory management of that seems too complicated. The "extra"
>>> mechanism of the check/assign hooks only supports one level of malloc.
>>> Using a List seems impossible. I don't know if you can safely do a
>>> malloc-ed array of malloc-ed strings either.
>>
>> Here's an idea -- have the check/assign hooks create a different
>> representation, which is a single guc_malloc'ed chunk that is made up of
>> every function name listed in the GUC, separated by \0. That can be
>> scanned at error time comparing the function name with each piece.
>
> Peter, would you like me to clean this up for commit, or do you prefer
> to keep authorship and get it done yourself?
If you want to finish it using the idea from your previous message,
please feel free. I won't get to it this week.
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