At Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:37:55 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote in
> At Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:35:58 -0300, Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com> wrote in
> > Hi.
> >
> > Per Coverity.
> >
> > The commit ccff2d2
> > <https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/ccff2d20ed9622815df2a7deffce8a7b14830965>,
> > changed the behavior function ArrayGetNItems,
> > with the introduction of the function ArrayGetNItemsSafe.
> >
> > Now ArrayGetNItems may return -1, according to the comment.
> > " instead of throwing an exception. -1 is returned after an error."
>
> If I'm reading the code correctly, it's the definition of
> ArrayGetNItems*Safe*. ArrayGetNItems() calls that function with a NULL
> escontext and the NULL turns ereturn() into ereport().
> That doesn't seem to be changed by the commit.
No.. It seems to me that the commit didn't change its behavior in that
regard.
> Of course teaching Coverity not to issue the false warnings would be
> another actual issue that we should do, maybe.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
