Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to it

libpgcommon is a new static library to allow sharing code among the
various frontend programs and backend; this lets us eliminate duplicate
implementations of common routines.  We avoid libpgport, because that's
intended as a place for porting issues; per discussion, it seems better
to keep them separate.

The first use case, and the only implemented by this patch, is pg_malloc
and friends, which many frontend programs were already using.

At the same time, we can use this to provide palloc emulation functions
for the frontend; this way, some palloc-using files in the backend can
also be used by the frontend cleanly.  To do this, we change palloc() in
the backend to be a function instead of a macro on top of
MemoryContextAlloc().  This was previously believed to cause loss of
performance, but this implementation has been tweaked by Tom and Andres
so that on modern compilers it provides a slight improvement over the
previous one.

This lets us clean up some places that were already with
localized hacks.

Most of the pg_malloc/palloc changes in this patch were authored by
Andres Freund. Zoltán Böszörményi also independently provided a form of
that.  libpgcommon infrastructure was authored by Álvaro.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/streamutil.c b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/streamutil.c
index 71abbfa9de9..8a43c4bad1d 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/streamutil.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/streamutil.c
@@ -26,43 +26,6 @@ static char *dbpassword = NULL;
 PGconn	   *conn = NULL;
 
 /*
- * strdup() and malloc() replacements that print an error and exit
- * if something goes wrong. Can never return NULL.
- */
-char *
-pg_strdup(const char *s)
-{
-	char	   *result;
-
-	result = strdup(s);
-	if (!result)
-	{
-		fprintf(stderr, _("%s: out of memory\n"), progname);
-		exit(1);
-	}
-	return result;
-}
-
-void *
-pg_malloc0(size_t size)
-{
-	void	   *result;
-
-	/* Avoid unportable behavior of malloc(0) */
-	if (size == 0)
-		size = 1;
-	result = malloc(size);
-	if (!result)
-	{
-		fprintf(stderr, _("%s: out of memory\n"), progname);
-		exit(1);
-	}
-	MemSet(result, 0, size);
-	return result;
-}
-
-
-/*
  * Connect to the server. Returns a valid PGconn pointer if connected,
  * or NULL on non-permanent error. On permanent error, the function will
  * call exit(1) directly.