| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re-thing PG_MODULE_MAGIC |
| Date: | 2006-06-16 14:23:23 |
| Message-ID: | 16640.1150467803@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> However, thinking about it, what they're doing can't possibly work. To
> override malloc/free, you need to load the library *before* the C
> library. Having the postmaster do it after startup is way too late.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. At the very least you'd expect
some odd behaviors with memory malloc'd before the load vs memory
malloc'd after. Much more likely, though, it just fails to do anything
at all.
regards, tom lane
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