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postgresql/src/include/utils/palloc.h
Robert Haas bd4e2fd97d Provide a way to supress the "out of memory" error when allocating.
Using the new interface MemoryContextAllocExtended, callers can
specify MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM if they are prepared to handle a NULL
return value.

Michael Paquier, reviewed and somewhat revised by me.
2015-01-30 12:56:48 -05:00

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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* palloc.h
* POSTGRES memory allocator definitions.
*
* This file contains the basic memory allocation interface that is
* needed by almost every backend module. It is included directly by
* postgres.h, so the definitions here are automatically available
* everywhere. Keep it lean!
*
* Memory allocation occurs within "contexts". Every chunk obtained from
* palloc()/MemoryContextAlloc() is allocated within a specific context.
* The entire contents of a context can be freed easily and quickly by
* resetting or deleting the context --- this is both faster and less
* prone to memory-leakage bugs than releasing chunks individually.
* We organize contexts into context trees to allow fine-grain control
* over chunk lifetime while preserving the certainty that we will free
* everything that should be freed. See utils/mmgr/README for more info.
*
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2015, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* src/include/utils/palloc.h
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#ifndef PALLOC_H
#define PALLOC_H
/*
* Type MemoryContextData is declared in nodes/memnodes.h. Most users
* of memory allocation should just treat it as an abstract type, so we
* do not provide the struct contents here.
*/
typedef struct MemoryContextData *MemoryContext;
/*
* CurrentMemoryContext is the default allocation context for palloc().
* Avoid accessing it directly! Instead, use MemoryContextSwitchTo()
* to change the setting.
*/
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext CurrentMemoryContext;
/*
* Flags for MemoryContextAllocExtended.
*/
#define MCXT_ALLOC_HUGE 0x01 /* allow huge allocation (> 1 GB) */
#define MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM 0x02 /* no failure if out-of-memory */
#define MCXT_ALLOC_ZERO 0x04 /* zero allocated memory */
/*
* Fundamental memory-allocation operations (more are in utils/memutils.h)
*/
extern void *MemoryContextAlloc(MemoryContext context, Size size);
extern void *MemoryContextAllocZero(MemoryContext context, Size size);
extern void *MemoryContextAllocZeroAligned(MemoryContext context, Size size);
extern void *MemoryContextAllocExtended(MemoryContext context,
Size size, int flags);
extern void *palloc(Size size);
extern void *palloc0(Size size);
extern void *repalloc(void *pointer, Size size);
extern void pfree(void *pointer);
/*
* The result of palloc() is always word-aligned, so we can skip testing
* alignment of the pointer when deciding which MemSet variant to use.
* Note that this variant does not offer any advantage, and should not be
* used, unless its "sz" argument is a compile-time constant; therefore, the
* issue that it evaluates the argument multiple times isn't a problem in
* practice.
*/
#define palloc0fast(sz) \
( MemSetTest(0, sz) ? \
MemoryContextAllocZeroAligned(CurrentMemoryContext, sz) : \
MemoryContextAllocZero(CurrentMemoryContext, sz) )
/* Higher-limit allocators. */
extern void *MemoryContextAllocHuge(MemoryContext context, Size size);
extern void *repalloc_huge(void *pointer, Size size);
/*
* MemoryContextSwitchTo can't be a macro in standard C compilers.
* But we can make it an inline function if the compiler supports it.
* See STATIC_IF_INLINE in c.h.
*
* Although this header file is nominally backend-only, certain frontend
* programs like pg_controldata include it via postgres.h. For some compilers
* it's necessary to hide the inline definition of MemoryContextSwitchTo in
* this scenario; hence the #ifndef FRONTEND.
*/
#ifndef FRONTEND
#ifndef PG_USE_INLINE
extern MemoryContext MemoryContextSwitchTo(MemoryContext context);
#endif /* !PG_USE_INLINE */
#if defined(PG_USE_INLINE) || defined(MCXT_INCLUDE_DEFINITIONS)
STATIC_IF_INLINE MemoryContext
MemoryContextSwitchTo(MemoryContext context)
{
MemoryContext old = CurrentMemoryContext;
CurrentMemoryContext = context;
return old;
}
#endif /* PG_USE_INLINE || MCXT_INCLUDE_DEFINITIONS */
#endif /* FRONTEND */
/*
* These are like standard strdup() except the copied string is
* allocated in a context, not with malloc().
*/
extern char *MemoryContextStrdup(MemoryContext context, const char *string);
extern char *pstrdup(const char *in);
extern char *pnstrdup(const char *in, Size len);
/* sprintf into a palloc'd buffer --- these are in psprintf.c */
extern char *
psprintf(const char *fmt,...)
__attribute__((format(PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE, 1, 2)));
extern size_t
pvsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *fmt, va_list args)
__attribute__((format(PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE, 3, 0)));
#endif /* PALLOC_H */