Ok, so I'm a newbie. To my defence I'll say that I made an effort to follow the style previously used in guc.c. The unchecked mallocs I added where not the first ;-)
So, what you are saying is that there's no need for the functions I suggested and that a palloc using the TopMemoryContext will guarantee correct behavior on "out of memory"? Kind regards, Thomas Hallgren "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Thomas Hallgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rather than clutter the code with the same ereport over and over again (I > > count 12 malloc's in guc.c alone), I'd like something like this: > > The larger question is why it contains even one. In general, use of > malloc in the backend is the mark of a newbie. I'd think palloc in > TopMemoryContext would be a more suitable approach. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster