On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:03:47PM -0200, Nelio Alves Pereira Filho wrote:
> I want to do a query that returns an integer and then fetch the result
> as an int. My query is something like that:
>
> SELECT 1::int
>
> Normally, I would get the result as a char and then convert it to int.
> Until here, no misteries. However, 'The Programmer's Guide' shows an
> example where a char pointer is converted to an int pointer, and then
> it's used normally. I tried that, but the result wasn't correct..
>
> Just to mention, I 'm used to convert char to int with strtol.
i generally do:
int num;
num = atoi(PQgetvalue(query_ptr, recnum, fnum));
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