Re: NULL checks of deferenced pointers in picksplit method of intarray

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Coverity is pointing out that _int_split.c has unnecessary checks
>> for deferenced pointers in 5 places.
>
>> Attached is a patch to adjust those things.
>
> Pushed. Thanks!

Thanks.

>> Also, as far as I understood from this code, no elements
>> manipulated are NULL, perhaps this is worth an assertion?
>
> I'm not clear where you were thinking of, but anyway that seemed
> like a separate patch if we're going to do it, so I went ahead with
> pushing the issued Coverity flagged. The arguments to the function
> don't need such a check because the function is exposed to SQL with
> the STRICT option (but you probably already knew that). While
> reviewing the safety of this patch the only place that I ran across
> that I felt maybe deserved an assertion was that n >= 0 near the
> top of copy_intArrayType(), but that seems marginal.

Yeah, we don't do that for the other STRICT functions, let's not do it then.
--
Michael