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Re: change palloc to malloc

Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>

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From: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Nguyen Hai <nguyen_hai91@yahoo.com>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2005-03-17T09:56:28Z
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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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Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>