1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/select.c b/src/select.c
index dd577f35e..ffaab786c 100644
--- a/src/select.c
+++ b/src/select.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 ** This file contains C code routines that are called by the parser
 ** to handle SELECT statements in SQLite.
 **
-** $Id: select.c,v 1.370 2007/12/13 21:54:11 drh Exp $
+** $Id: select.c,v 1.371 2007/12/14 16:11:09 drh Exp $
 */
 #include "sqliteInt.h"
 
@@ -1464,8 +1464,7 @@ static int matchOrderByTermToExprList(
   if( pE->op==TK_ID || (pE->op==TK_STRING && pE->token.z[0]!='\'') ){
     sqlite3 *db = pParse->db;
     char *zCol = sqlite3NameFromToken(db, &pE->token);
-    if( db->mallocFailed ){
-      sqlite3_free(zCol);
+    if( zCol==0 ){
       return -1;
     }
     for(i=0; i<pEList->nExpr; i++){