Re: BUG #16190: The usage of NULL pointer in refint.c

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, starbugs@qq.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-01-07T01:27:41Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs

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On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:44:43AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> I think we should consider either moving this out of contrib, or fixing
> it up. test/example code is fine, but contrib gets installed by default
> for a lot of people... And yea, this isn't just about contrib/spi.

No idea about moving that out of contrib/, but here is a patch to fix
things that just moves the allocations to TopMemoryContext and removes
the system calls.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Remove dependency to system calls for memory allocation in refint