Re: not checking value returned from palloc?

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.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/