On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 21:07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> I came across a situation today with a pretty bad crash of pg_dump,
>> due to not checking the return code from malloc(). When looking
>> through the code, it seems there are a *lot* of places in pg_dump that
>> doesn't check the malloc return code.
>
>> But we do have a pg_malloc() function in there - but from what I can
>> tell it's only used very sparsely?
>
>> Shouldn't we be using that one more or less everywhere
>
> Yup. Have at it.
Something along the line of this?
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