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    Don't be so trusting that shm_toc_lookup() will always succeed. · d4663350
    Tom Lane authored
    Given the possibility of race conditions and so on, it seems entirely
    unsafe to just assume that shm_toc_lookup() always finds the key it's
    looking for --- but that was exactly what all but one call site were
    doing.  To fix, add a "bool noError" argument, similarly to what we
    have in many other functions, and throw an error on an unexpected
    lookup failure.  Remove now-redundant Asserts that a rather random
    subset of call sites had.
    
    I doubt this will throw any light on buildfarm member lorikeet's
    recent failures, because if an unnoticed lookup failure were involved,
    you'd kind of expect a null-pointer-dereference crash rather than the
    observed symptom.  But you never know ... and this is better coding
    practice even if it never catches anything.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9697.1496675981@sss.pgh.pa.us
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