SPI_psprintf and SPI_pstrdup

From: Jacob Rief <jacob(dot)rief(at)gmx(dot)at>
To: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: SPI_psprintf and SPI_pstrdup
Date: 2007-04-24 20:51:04
Message-ID: 1177447864.4530.21.camel@ruben
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The Apache runtime library, which is using a similar concept for
allocating heap-based memory out of a pool, has some since utility
functions, named apr_psprintf and apr_pstrdup.
These functions allocate a memory-block out of a pool and print a
formatted string into that block, or duplicate a string respectively.

Since such useful functions are missing in PostgreSQL's Server
Programming Interface, I created two similar functions:

char *SPI_psprintf(const char *fmt, ...);
allocates a block of memory out of the memory pool and prints a
formatted string into it

SPI_pstrdup(const char *src);
allocates a block of memory out of the memory pool and copies an
existing string into it.

I includes a patch containing these functions to be applied onto version
8.2.3 and 8.2.4. I would appreciate seeing it in one of the next
versions.

Jacob Rief

Attachment Content-Type Size
postgresql-8.2.4-SPI_extras.patch text/x-patch 1.7 KB

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