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    Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to it · 8396447c
    Alvaro Herrera authored
    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.
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