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

On January 6, 2020 10:44:12 PM PST, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:26:54PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2020-01-06 21:12:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> WFM.  There are probably more elegant ways to do it than to drop
>this
>>> stuff into TopMemoryContext, but this is surely better than
>unchecked
>>> malloc calls.
>> 
>> Yea, it's certainly better than the current situation. An incremental
>> improvement would be to do the allocations in a separate contect, for
>easier
>> debugging should there ever be a leak...
>
>Sure.  I am not sure if that's worth the extra work though, so I would
>just be tempted to commit the patch that moves the allocation to
>TopMemoryContext and call it a day.  Any objections to that?

Not from here
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