From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: bug in COPY |
Date: | 2002-08-27 20:24:48 |
Message-ID: | 200208272024.g7RKOmL10918@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)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.
You really think it should be Assert? I don't mind opening the chance
to throw an error for bad input, but are you sure that a NULL should
never get there?
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