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The idea is to encourage more the use of these allocation routines across the tree, as these offer stronger type safety guarantees than pg_malloc() & co (type cast in the result, sizeof() embedded). This set of changes is dedicated to the pg_dump code. Similar work has been done as of 31d3847a37be, as one example. Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvpGPDLhkHAoxw_g3jdrYxA1m16a8uagbgH3TGWSKtXNQ@mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.