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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : Dan Merillat
Your email address : Dan@merillat.org
Category : install: other
Severity : non-critical
Summary: Documentation problem
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PostgreSQL version : 6.3
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Problem Description:
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libpq documentation has a few errors. Most notably, the reccomended style of error handling.
psuedocode: res=PQexec(conn, "error-prone-statement"); if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) { do_error_code(); }
This is actually incorrect, since on error, PQexec returns null, so PQresultStatus (which I can't find documented)
derefrencesa null pointer.
Correct example code would be res=PQexec(conn, "error-prone-statment"); if (!res) { printf("PQexec(): %s\n",
PQerrorMessage(conn));exit(1) }
If nobody else is working on the documentation reply to me, and I'll submit diffs.
--Dan
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