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 d47697657429cab8b9f1d448b0064fe1c88b018a..892d42c63ee5c1c109d9f9588d57dd48cb395b7c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -4840,11 +4840,6 @@ 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;