On 22.05.25 17:00, Tom Lane wrote: > Yeah, after sleeping on it I fear that leaving xml_parse entirely > alone will just be a recipe for future copy-and-paste errors. That's exactly my concern as well. > The Assert solution seems like the way to go, approximately > > xmlNodePtr root; > + xmlNodePtr oldroot PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY; > > ... > /* This attaches root to doc, so we need not free it separately. > */ > - xmlDocSetRootElement(doc, root); > + oldroot = xmlDocSetRootElement(doc, root); > + /* ... and there can't yet be any old root to clean up. */ > + Assert(oldroot == NULL); > > I'll make it so.
+1 Thanks! Best regards, Jim