SPI_REPALLOC(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to SPI_REPALLOC(3) — the PostgreSQL 16.15 docs page for SPI_repalloc — reallocate memory in the upper executor context ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void * SPI_repalloc(void * pointer, Size size)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so SPI_repalloc changes the size of a memory segment that was previously allocated using SPI_palloc. That's the whole gig 🫶

and here's the tea: this function is no longer different from plain repalloc. It's kept just for backward compatibility of existing code. periodt 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void * pointer — pointer to existing storage to change. like, the storage you're resizing, bestie 🍓
• Size size — size in bytes of storage to allocate. the new size in bytes, slay ✨

🌸 RETURN VALUE 🌸

You get back a pointer to new storage space of specified size, with the contents copied from the existing area. iconic 💖

PostgreSQL 16.15 · 2026 — that's the source/version and date, bestie; now go resize responsibly 💅🎀