On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:29 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Nguyen Hai wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to convert palloc back to malloc?
> > If so, what should I do to make the change?
>
> You can, but palloc is automatically freed at the end of a query, while
> malloc has to be freed in the code. Why do you want to make the
> switch?
Right. And it's definitely faster use palloc() than malloc(). I think
the current code is really based on memory contexts and I'm sure that
(strange:-) s/palloc/malloc/ is not enough.
Karel
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