| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Mark Dilger <pgsql(at)markdilger(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: not checking value returned from palloc? | 
| Date: | 2006-03-19 22:10:22 | 
| Message-ID: | 20060319221022.GA5357@surnet.cl | 
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Mark Dilger wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >Mark Dilger wrote:
> >
> >>Looking through the postgresql source code, I notice that there are
> >>many places were palloc is used but the return value is not checked
> >>to see if it is null.
> >
> >palloc will throw an exception if it cannot fulfill the request.  Code 
> >that checks the return value for null is in fact a waste.
> 
> Interesting.  So the patch should go the other way, and remove the checks 
> that are currently in the code?
Yes, if you find any such place please submit a patch.
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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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