change palloc to malloc

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?

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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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