Re: StringInfo misc. issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: StringInfo misc. issues
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Msg-id 46D5893B.3000206@dunslane.net
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In response to StringInfo misc. issues  (NikhilS <nikkhils@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: StringInfo misc. issues  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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NikhilS wrote:
>
>
> I also found the absence of a function like resetStringInfo() a bit 
> puzzling. A found a lot of places where the code was resetting the 
> "len" field to 0 and assigning '\0' to the data field to reset the 
> variable. This seems to be the only missing API which will be needed 
> while working with the StringInfo type.


er, what? stringinfo.h has:

/*------------------------* resetStringInfo* Clears the current content of the StringInfo, if any. The* StringInfo
remainsvalid.*/
 
extern void resetStringInfo(StringInfo str);


cheers

andrew




cheers

andrew


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