Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> Those aren't actually equivalent, because of the !nodeptr. IsA() crashes
> for NULL pointers, but the new code won't. Which means 9ba8a9ce4548b et
> al actually weakened some asserts.
> Should we perhaps have one NULL accepting version (castNodeNull?) and
> one that separately asserts that ptr != NULL?
-1 ... if you're going to use something in a way that requires it not to
be null, your code will crash quite efficiently on a null, with or
without an assert. I don't think we need the extra cogitive burden of
two distinct macros for this.
regards, tom lane
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