Re: not checking value returned from palloc? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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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