Re: pg_dump vs malloc

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-22T15:48:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Something along the line of this?

I think this is a seriously, seriously bad idea:

> +#define strdup(x) pg_strdup(x)
> +#define malloc(x) pg_malloc(x)
> +#define calloc(x,y) pg_calloc(x, y)
> +#define realloc(x,y) pg_realloc(x, y)

as it will render the code unreadable to people expecting the normal
behavior of these fundamental functions; not to mention break any
call sites that have some other means of dealing with an alloc failure
besides going belly-up.  Please take the trouble to do
s/malloc/pg_malloc/g and so on, instead.

			regards, tom lane