SPI_REPALLOC(3)

okay bestie, this is the SPI_REPALLOC(3) page from the PostgreSQL 13.23 docs, and we're gonna make it make sense 💅

✨ NAME ✨

SPI_repalloc — reallocate memory in the upper executor context 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void * SPI_repalloc(void * pointer, Size size)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

SPI_repalloc changes the size of a memory segment previously allocated using SPI_palloc. literally that's the whole vibe.

and here's the tea: this function is no longer different from plain repalloc. It's kept just for backward compatibility of existing code. so if you see it out there, that's why — iconic but legacy 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void * pointer — pointer to existing storage to change
• Size size — size in bytes of storage to allocate

🦋 RETURN VALUE 🦋

returns a pointer to new storage space of the specified size, with the contents copied from the existing area ✨

bestie, that's the page: PostgreSQL 13.23, 2025, and we're out 💖