Remove unnecessary complication around xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit 0928e18eb85a · 2025-07-29T12:47:20.000-04:00
When I prepared 71c0921 et al yesterday, I was thinking that the logic involving explicitly freeing the node_list output was still needed to dodge leakage bugs in libxml2. But I was misremembering: we introduced that only because with early 2.13.x releases we could not trust xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory's result code, so we had to look to see if a node list was returned or not. There's no reason to believe that xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory will fail to clean up the node list when required, so simplify. (This essentially completes reverting all the non-cosmetic changes in 6082b3d.) Reported-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/997668.1753802857@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 13
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
@@ -1622,14 +1622,9 @@ xml_parse(text *data, XmlOptionType xmloption_arg, bool preserve_whitespace,
 			/* allow empty content */
 			if (*(utf8string + count))
 			{
-				xmlNodePtr	node_list = NULL;
-
 				res_code = xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(doc, NULL, NULL, 0,
 													   utf8string + count,
-													   &node_list);
-
-				xmlFreeNodeList(node_list);
-
+													   NULL);
 				if (res_code != 0 || xmlerrcxt->err_occurred)
 					xml_ereport(xmlerrcxt, ERROR, ERRCODE_INVALID_XML_CONTENT,
 								"invalid XML content");
