I wrote:
> It kind of feels that the argument order should be pointer, oldsize, size.
> It feels even more strongly that people will get the ordering wrong,
> whichever we choose.  Is there a way to make that more bulletproof?

Actually ... an even-more-terrifyingly-plausible misuse is that the
supplied oldsize is different from the actual previous allocation.
We should try to check that.  In MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING builds
it should be possible to assert that oldsize == requested_size.
We don't have that data if !MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING, but we could
at least assert that oldsize <= allocated chunk size.

                        regards, tom lane


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