On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:39 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>
> Looking at a pg_dump patch I realized that when we call buildIndexArray without
> having found objects to index, we still call pg_malloc with zero which in turn
> mallocs 1 byte. The byte in question is of course negligable, but it does seem
> cleaner to return early with NULL instead of returning an empty allocation
> which doesn't actually contain an index.
>
> Any reason not to bail early as per the attached?
+1