Re: trigger example for plsample

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 10:30:13AM -0400, chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net wrote:
> On 2022-04-06 16:44, Mark Wong wrote:
> > I think I've applied all of these suggestions and attached a new patch.
>
> That looks good to me, though I wonder about the pfree(source).
> In the simplest case of a PL that uses no advance compilation or
> augmentation step, the Code Execution block might naturally refer
> to source, so perhaps the example boilerplate shouldn't include
> a pfree that needs to be removed in that case.
>
> In fact, I wonder about the need for any retail pfree()s here. Those
> added in this patch are the only ones in plsample.c. They are small
> allocations, and maybe it would both streamline the example to leave
> out the pfree calls, and be an illustration of best practice in letting
> the memory context machinery handle all the deallocation at once, where
> there isn't a special need to free something, like an especially large
> allocation, at retail.

Thanks, I've attached v4.

I've removed all of the pfree()'s and added an elog(DEBUG1) for source
to quiet a compiler warning about source's lack of use. :) (Was that a
good way?)

Regards,
Mark