The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2445
Logged by:
Email address: friedrich_sperling (AT) web (DOT) de
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.3
Operating system: Debien GNU/Linux Etch
Description: incompatibility: realloc <> repalloc
Details:

it seems that there is a little difference in the handeling of standard
library's realloc and the postgresql repalloc functions, which might be
inconvenient.
if the realloc funtion receives a NULL pointer as first argument, it works
just like the malloc function,
whereas the repalloc function crashes the server.

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"" <friedrich_sperling (AT) web (DOT) de> writes:
It's intentional, however.

regards, tom lane

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