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 27184fb3c4c8b68e333646bbe734b19d5fbe0c1a..4c49393fc5ad8657c3c1c834b9036d0b91f35333 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -4790,11 +4790,6 @@ 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;