Small tidyup for commit d41a178b, part II.

Further to commit 6a9229da, checking for NULL is now redundant.  An "out
of memory" error would have been thrown already by palloc() and treated
as FATAL, so we can delete a few more lines.

Back-patch to all releases, like those other commits.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4040668.1679013388%40sss.pgh.pa.us

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 56f9f272cae4b408c0f6bb18c0f8d31e7fdcca35..6f51fe693501205b809dcf0cdbd2d57fc03c99a5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -4880,11 +4880,6 @@ retry:
     * freed by a later call to waitpid().
     */
    childinfo = palloc(sizeof(win32_deadchild_waitinfo));
-   if (!childinfo)
-       ereport(FATAL,
-               (errcode(ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY),
-                errmsg("out of memory")));
-
    childinfo->procHandle = pi.hProcess;
    childinfo->procId = pi.dwProcessId;