Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> writes:
> Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Namely, that on platforms where malloc(0) returns NULL instead of
>> a pointer to a zero-size block, pg_malloc thinks it's a failure
>> and aborts the program.
> What's the use case for malloc(0) anyway?
See getAggregates() for an example. Yeah, we could add a special-case
code path for no aggregates, but it would be annoying and error-prone.
regards, tom lane
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