There used to be bespoken pools for these structs to reduce the palloc/pfree overhead, but that was ripped out a long time ago and replaced with the generic, cheaper generational memory allocator (commit a4ccc1cef5). The Get/Return terminology made sense with the pools, as you "got" an object from the pool and "returned" it later, but now it just looks weird. Rename to Alloc/Free. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/c9e43d2d-8e83-444f-b111-430377368989@iki.fi
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.
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