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| -rw-r--r-- | src/include/lib/stringinfo.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/lib/stringinfo.h b/src/include/lib/stringinfo.h index c4842778c5..e27942728e 100644 --- a/src/include/lib/stringinfo.h +++ b/src/include/lib/stringinfo.h @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ * stringinfo.h * Declarations/definitions for "StringInfo" functions. * - * StringInfo provides an indefinitely-extensible string data type. - * It can be used to buffer either ordinary C strings (null-terminated text) - * or arbitrary binary data. All storage is allocated with palloc(). + * StringInfo provides an extensible string data type (currently limited to a + * length of 1GB). It can be used to buffer either ordinary C strings + * (null-terminated text) or arbitrary binary data. All storage is allocated + * with palloc() (falling back to malloc in frontend code). * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2019, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California |