SPI_PFREE(3)

✨ SPI_PFREE ✨

okay bestie, welcome to SPI_pfree 💅 this is one of those little functions from the PostgreSQL 18.6 Documentation set, and honestly? she's giving retired icon who still shows up to the party. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

SPI_pfree — free memory in the upper executor context 🧹✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void SPI_pfree(void * pointer)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so, SPI_pfree frees memory that was previously allocated using SPI_palloc or SPI_repalloc. that's the whole job. she hands the memory back. no cap 💖

but here's the tea, and it's important: this function is no longer different from plain pfree. like, at all. it's kept just for backward compatibility of existing code. so if you're writing new stuff, you don't need her — but if you're maintaining old stuff, she's still here for you, loyal as ever 👑

lowkey iconic that she stuck around. deprecated-ish in vibe, but fully present in the API. don't come for her, she's doing her best 💀

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

• void * pointer — pointer to existing storage to free. that's it, that's the whole argument. hand her the pointer, she lets it go 🎈

and that's the page, bestie!! short, sweet, slightly obsolete but emotionally significant 💜 this was pulled from PostgreSQL 18.6, dated 2026, and the manual page is SPI_PFREE(3) — k bye, go free your memory responsibly 💖✨🎀