Re: use the malloc macros in pg_dump.c

Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>

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From: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>

To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2026-02-03T02:29:12Z

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Attachments

v2-0005-modify-malloc-for-pg_backup_directory.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0005
v2-0004-modify-malloc-for-pg_backup_archiver.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0004
v2-0001-use-the-malloc-macros-for-arrays-and-objects.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0001
v2-0003-modify-malloc-in-pg_dump_sort.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0003
v2-0002-modify-mallocs-in-dumputils.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0002
v2-0007-modify-malloc-for-compress_none.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0007
v2-0008-modify-malloc-for-compress_gzip.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0008
v2-0006-modify-malloc-for-parallel.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0006
v2-0009-modify-malloc-for-pg_backup_custom.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0009
v2-0010-modify-malloc-for-compress_io.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0010
v2-0011-modify-malloc-for-pg_dumpall.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0011
v2-0012-modify-more-mallocs-in-pg_dump.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0012
v2-0013-modify-malloc-for-pg_backup_archiver.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0013
v2-0015-modify-malloc-for-compress_zstd.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0015
v2-0014-modify-malloc-for-compress_lz4.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0014
v2-0016-modify-malloc-for-connectdb.c.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2-0016

PSA v2 with more of the same kind of malloc changes.

Scope: This addresses all those I could find in the src/bin/pg_dump/* folder.

Note, there were a few examples of simple char * buffer mallocs I that
did not change, because it did not seem useful to do so.

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia

Commits

pg_dump: Use pg_malloc_object() and pg_malloc_array()
- 6736dea14afb 19 (unreleased) landed