On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:35:04AM -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI > > - The meaning of PGresAttValue is changed. The field 'value' now > > contains a value withOUT terminating zero. This change seems to > > have no effect on any other portion within the whole source > > tree of postgresql from what I've seen. > > This is a minor point of concern. This function was exposed to > support libpqtypes (which your stuff compliments very nicely by the > way) and I quickly confirmed removal of the null terminator didn't > cause any problems there. I doubt anyone else is inspecting the > structure directly (also searched the archives and didn't find > anything). > > This needs to be advertised very loudly in the docs -- I understand > why this was done but it's a pretty big change in the way the api > works.
Note that the non-NUL-terminated PGresAttValue is only used for row handler. So no existing usage is affected. But I agree using same struct in different situations is confusing, thus the request for separate struct for row handler usage. -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers