Re: unsafe use of hash_search(... HASH_ENTER ...) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu> writes:
> In general, code snippet like this:

> if (hash_search(..., HASH_ENTER, ...) == NULL)
>     action_except_elog__ERROR__;

> are considered unsafe if: (1) the allocation method of the target hash table
> could elog(ERROR) themselves and (2) the reaction to the failure of
> hash_search() is not elog(ERROR).

I've made some changes to hopefully prevent this type of thinko again.
Thanks for spotting it.
        regards, tom lane