Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2019-Jul-22, Julien Rouhaud wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:11 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> >> wrote: >>> Can we use List for this instead?
>> Isn't that for backend code only? > Well, we already have palloc() on the frontend side, and list.c doesn't > have any elog()/ereport(), so it should be possible to use it ... I do > see that it uses MemoryContextAlloc() in a few places. Maybe we can > just #define that to palloc()? I'm not happy about either the idea of pulling all of list.c into frontend programs, or restricting it to be frontend-safe. That's very fundamental infrastructure and I don't want it laboring under such a restriction. Furthermore, List usage generally leaks memory like mad (cf nearby list_concat discussion) which doesn't seem like something we want for frontend code. regards, tom lane