Re: WIP: pl/pgsql cleanup

Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 01:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It might be better to keep CurrentMemoryContext pointing at a temp
>> context, and translate malloc() to MemoryContextAlloc(function_context)
>> rather than just palloc(). (Of course you could hide this in a macro,
>> maybe falloc()?)

> Are there really enough short-lived pallocs that this is worth the
> trouble?

Not sure, but it seems like at least as straightforward a translation
as the other way. More to the point, it makes clear the difference
between what is meant to be a long-lived data structure and what isn't.

> One potential issue is that there are plenty of places where
> we'd want to falloc(), but don't have the function easily available
> (e.g. in the parser).

Why not? You'd need to keep the context-to-use in a static variable,
but that's no great difficulty considering that plpgsql function
parsing needn't be re-entrant.

regards, tom lane