| From: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Nguyen Hai <nguyen_hai91(at)yahoo(dot)com>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: change palloc to malloc |
| Date: | 2005-03-17 09:56:28 |
| Message-ID: | 1111053388.4169.247.camel@petra |
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On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:29 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Nguyen Hai wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to convert palloc back to malloc?
> > If so, what should I do to make the change?
>
> You can, but palloc is automatically freed at the end of a query, while
> malloc has to be freed in the code. Why do you want to make the
> switch?
Right. And it's definitely faster use palloc() than malloc(). I think
the current code is really based on memory contexts and I'm sure that
(strange:-) s/palloc/malloc/ is not enough.
Karel
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Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
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