
This adds additional variants of palloc, pg_malloc, etc. that encapsulate common usage patterns and provide more type safety. Specifically, this adds palloc_object(), palloc_array(), and repalloc_array(), which take the type name of the object to be allocated as its first argument and cast the return as a pointer to that type. There are also palloc0_object() and palloc0_array() variants for initializing with zero, and pg_malloc_*() variants of all of the above. Inspired by the talloc library. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bb755632-2a43-d523-36f8-a1e7a389a907@enterprisedb.com