Re: Reasons not to like asprintf

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

I'd almost be inclined to go the other way and suggest that we try to
use the pg_ prefix more, at least for things to be shared between
front and back end code.

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