From 57ce9acc04483df4913921d4ff21f01483583fb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:38:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove dead code in pg_dump.

Coverity quite reasonably complained that this check for fout==NULL
occurred after we'd already dereferenced fout.  However, the check
is just dead code since there is no code path by which CreateArchive
can return a null pointer.  Errors such as can't-open-that-file are
reported down inside CreateArchive, and control doesn't return.
So let's silence the warning by removing the dead code, rather than
continuing to pretend it does something.

Coverity didn't complain about this before 5b5fea2a1, so back-patch
to 9.5 like that patch.
---
 src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
index 9196cf44d98..59542aa1d3d 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
@@ -617,9 +617,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* Register the cleanup hook */
 	on_exit_close_archive(fout);
 
-	if (fout == NULL)
-		exit_horribly(NULL, "could not open output file \"%s\" for writing\n", filename);
-
 	/* Let the archiver know how noisy to be */
 	fout->verbose = g_verbose;
 
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