Re: bug in COPY

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The exclamation point seems inappropriate. Perhaps "zero-length input"
> >> would be better than "string" also.
>
> > I copied the other test case:
>
> > if (s == (char *) NULL)
> > elog(ERROR, "pg_atoi: NULL pointer!");
>
> Well, the NULL-pointer test might equally well be coded as an Assert:
> it's to catch backend coding errors, not cases of incorrect user input.
> So the exclamation point there didn't bother me.

You really think it should be Assert? I don't mind opening the chance
to throw an error for bad input, but are you sure that a NULL should
never get there?

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