Re: Avoid use deprecated Windows Memory API

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Avoid use deprecated Windows Memory API
Date: 2022-09-15 12:50:29
Message-ID: 20220915125029.ntzqn63636fio7lc@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2022-Sep-14, Ranier Vilela wrote:

> According to:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-localalloc

> LocalAlloc is deprecated.
> So use HeapAlloc instead, once LocalAlloc is an overhead wrapper to
> HeapAlloc.

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 you were proposing to change how palloc() allocates memory, that
would be quite different and perhaps useful, as long as a benchmark
accompanies the patch.
.
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Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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