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 <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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 15e9b7c62ad190545965739525104f4aa2723850..4a4758846c023b21617ada3ad8ffe475c550c42f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -4746,11 +4746,6 @@ 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;