Re: Reasons not to like asprintf

On 10/22/13, 3:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> In order to avoid having to clutter stuff like that with #ifdef FRONTENDs,
> I'm now thinking we should use exactly the same names for the frontend and
> backend versions, ie psprintf() and pvsprintf().  The main reason for
> considering a pg_ prefix for the frontend versions was to avoid cluttering
> application namespace; but it's already the case that we don't expect
> libpgcommon to be namespace clean.

While this is attractive, the same logic would suggest that we rename
pg_malloc() to palloc(), and that sounds wrong.  The frontend and
backend functions do have different freeing semantics.