On 22.08.22 20:30, Tom Lane wrote:
I'm not very convinced that the benefits of making pfree() more like free() are worth those costs.We could ameliorate the first objection if we wanted to back-patch 0002, I guess. (FWIW, no objection to your 0001. 0004 and 0005 seem okay too; they don't touch enough places to create much back-patching risk.)
To conclude this, I have committed those secondary patches and updated the utils/mmgr/README with some information from this discussion.