SPI_PALLOC(3)

✨ NAME ✨

SPI_palloc — allocate memory in the upper executor context 💖

okay bestie, you're on the SPI_PALLOC(3) page from the PostgreSQL 15.19 documentation, and this one is short but iconic ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void * SPI_palloc(Size size)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

SPI_palloc allocates memory in the upper executor context. That's the whole vibe 🫶

important: this function can only be used while connected to SPI. Otherwise, it throws an error — no cap, it will not play nice outside SPI 😭

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• Size size — the size, in bytes, of the storage to allocate 💅

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

a pointer to the new storage space of the specified size — slay ✨

mwah 💋 that's the whole page from the PostgreSQL 15.19 docs, dated 2026 — SPI_PALLOC(3), signing off 🫶