Re: [HACKERS] Custom allocators in libpq

On 8/28/17 15:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> ... but it seems like you're giving up a lot of the possible uses if
> you don't make it apply uniformly.  I admit I'm not sure how we'd handle
> the initial creation of a connection object with a custom malloc.  The
> obvious solution of requiring the functions to be specified at PQconnect
> time seems to require Yet Another PQconnect Variant, which is not very
> appetizing.

I would have expected a separate function just to register the callback
functions, before doing anything else with libpq.  Similar to libxml:
http://xmlsoft.org/xmlmem.html

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