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