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

On 2020-01-06 21:12:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <[email protected]> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> 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...

- Andres