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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Hallgren <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: bug in GUC
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:02:08 -0400
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"Thomas Hallgren" <[email protected]> writes:
> Rather than clutter the code with the same ereport over and over again (I
> count 12 malloc's in guc.c alone), I'd like something like this:

The larger question is why it contains even one.  In general, use of
malloc in the backend is the mark of a newbie.  I'd think palloc in
TopMemoryContext would be a more suitable approach.

			regards, tom lane

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