Re: PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier() documented with invalid signatures. - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier() documented with invalid signatures.
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Msg-id 20527.1280938587@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier() documented with invalid signatures.  (Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>)
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Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> writes:
> Actual signatures of libpq's functions PQescapeLiteral(),
> PQescapeIdentifier()
> is
> char *PQescapeLiteral(PGconn *conn, const char *str, size_t len)
> char *PQescapeIdentifier(PGconn *conn, const char *str, size_t len)

> that differs from signatures provided in the documentation here
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-ESCAPE-STRING

Wow ... I can understand missing the "const" declarations, but getting
the return type wrong is pretty bad :-(.  Amazing nobody caught this
before.  Thanks, will fix!

            regards, tom lane

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