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Re: [PATCH] unified frontend support for pg_malloc et al and palloc/pfree mulation (was xlogreader-v4)

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-09T11:46:53Z
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On 09.01.2013 13:27, Andres Freund wrote:
> - makes palloc() into a real function so CurrentMemoryContext doesn't
>    need to be provided

I don't understand the need for this change. Can't you just:

#define palloc(s) pg_malloc(s)

in the frontend context?

- Heikki

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