Re: Making empty Bitmapsets always be NULL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Making empty Bitmapsets always be NULL
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Msg-id 2109280.1677776667@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Making empty Bitmapsets always be NULL  (Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>)
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Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> writes:
> It seems that the Bitmapset checked by bms_is_empty_internal cannot be
> NULL from how it is computed by a function.  So I wonder if we can
> remove the check of 'a' being NULL in that function, or reduce it to an
> Assert.

Yeah, I think just removing it is sufficient.  The subsequent attempts
to dereference the pointer will crash just fine if it's NULL; we don't
need an Assert to help things along.

> It seems that in create_lateral_join_info around line 689, the
> bms_is_empty check of lateral_relids is not necessary, since we've
> checked that lateral_relids cannot be NULL several lines earlier.

Good catch, I missed that one.

Pushed, thanks for reviewing.

            regards, tom lane



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