Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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.
> I removed them both '!'.
If you like. But the two conditions are not comparable.
regards, tom lane
