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

Andres Freund <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:45:08 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On January 6, 2020 10:44:12 PM PST, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier=2Exyz=
> 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=2E  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=2E
>>=20
>> Yea, it's certainly better than the current situation=2E An incremental
>> improvement would be to do the allocations in a separate contect, for
>easier
>> debugging should there ever be a leak=2E=2E=2E
>
>Sure=2E  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=2E  Any objections to that?

Not from here
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail=2E Please excuse my brevity=2E