Re: Expand palloc/pg_malloc API

On 17.05.22 20:43, Tom Lane wrote:
> So I think Peter's got a good idea here (I might quibble with the details
> of some of these macros).  But it's not really going to move the
> safety goalposts very far unless we make a concerted effort to make
> these be the style everywhere.  Are we willing to do that?  What
> will it do to back-patching difficulty?  Dare I suggest back-patching
> these changes?

I think it could go like the castNode() introduction: first we adopt it 
sporadically for new code, then we change over some larger pieces of 
code, then we backpatch the API, then someone sends in a big patch to 
change the rest.