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Re: Allow substitute allocators for PGresult.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-12T06:36:30Z
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On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> AIUI Kyotaro-san is just suggesting that the app should be able to
> provide a substitute malloc function for use in allocating PGresult
> space (and not, I think, anything else that libpq allocates internally).
> Basically this would allow PGresults to be cleaned up with methods other
> than calling PQclear on each one.  It wouldn't affect how you'd interact
> with one while you had it.  That seems like pretty much exactly what we
> want for preventing memory leaks in the backend; but is it going to be
> useful for other apps?

I think it will.

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