[PATCH] unified frontend support for pg_malloc et al and palloc/pfree mulation (was xlogreader-v4)
Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-09T11:27:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,
As promised here's a patch to provide palloc emulation for frontend-ish
environments.
The patch:
- makes palloc() into a real function so CurrentMemoryContext doesn't
need to be provided
- provides common pg_(malloc,malloc0, realloc, strdup, free) wrappers
and removes various versions of those across different utilities
- removes ugly palloc redefinery for frontend use of backend code (dirmod.c)
Controversial/Unclear things:
- palloc[0] are currently copies of the MemoryContextAlloc[Zero]
functions to preclude performance regressions, imo the level of
duplication is ok though
- the common memory management is implemented in [pg]port/palloc.[ch], I
am not too happy with the name and location
- pgport/palloc.c is only built in the backend, not sure if there is a
nicer way to do this from a make POV
- the different versions of pg_malloc et al used different error
signaling methods, I've settled on
fprintf(stderr, _("out of memory\n"));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
Results in a nice net removal of code:
37 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 621 deletions(-)
Commits
-
Prevent creation of postmaster's TCP socket during pg_upgrade testing.
- 78a5e738e97b 9.3.0 cited