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Add more detail why repalloc and pfree do not accept NULL pointers
Per discussion, we choose not to change this. This just gives a little bit more information. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/cf26e970-8e92-59f1-247a-aa265235075b%40enterprisedb.com
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error. Similarly, repalloc allows realloc'ing to zero size.
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* pfree and repalloc do not accept a NULL pointer. This is intentional.
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(For repalloc, this is necessary: As mentioned above, repalloc does
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not depend on the current memory context. But then it needs to know
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which memory context to do the allocation in. So the first allocation
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has to be done outside of repalloc. For pfree, this behavior is
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mostly historical and partially because the extra check would impact
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performance.)
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The Current Memory Context

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