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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Ranier Vilela <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Avoid use deprecated Windows Memory API
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:13:47 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEudQApbe7LWASbi0+LWzHWKTmt_zHggscB836-cXKZGCbx8zA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2022-Sep-15, Ranier Vilela wrote:

> Em qui., 15 de set. de 2022 às 09:50, Alvaro Herrera <
> [email protected]> escreveu:

> > These functions you are patching are not in performance-sensitive code,
> > so I doubt this makes any difference performance wise.  I doubt
> > Microsoft will ever remove these deprecated functions, given its history
> > of backwards compatibility, so from that perspective this change does
> > not achieve anything either.
>
> If users don't adapt to the new API, the old one will never really expire.

If you are claiming that Microsoft will remove the old API because
Postgres stopped using it, ... sorry, no.

> Neither the patch nor the thread deals with palloc.

I know.  Which is why I think the patch is useless.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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