PQerrorMessage documentation

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#1Igor Korot
ikorot01@gmail.com

Hi, ALL,
[quote]
Nearly all libpq functions will set a message for PQerrorMessage if
they fail. Note that by libpq convention, a nonempty PQerrorMessage
result can consist of multiple lines, and will include a trailing
newline. The caller should not free the result directly. It will be
freed when the associated PGconn handle is passed to PQfinish. The
result string should not be expected to remain the same across
operations on the PGconn structure.
[/quote]

Since there may be multiple errors, I presume that in this case the string
will end with just \0, correct? It's not going to be \0\0 like with MSVC.

Thank you.

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#2Peter Eisentraut
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In reply to: Igor Korot (#1)
Re: PQerrorMessage documentation

On 5/3/17 21:23, Igor Korot wrote:

Hi, ALL,
[quote]
Nearly all libpq functions will set a message for PQerrorMessage if
they fail. Note that by libpq convention, a nonempty PQerrorMessage
result can consist of multiple lines, and will include a trailing
newline. The caller should not free the result directly. It will be
freed when the associated PGconn handle is passed to PQfinish. The
result string should not be expected to remain the same across
operations on the PGconn structure.
[/quote]

Since there may be multiple errors, I presume that in this case the string
will end with just \0, correct? It's not going to be \0\0 like with MSVC.

I don't know what you mean by \0\0 with MSVC, but it is correct that the
error message string will end with \0, like any C string.

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#3Igor Korot
ikorot01@gmail.com
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#2)
Re: PQerrorMessage documentation

Hi,

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

On 5/3/17 21:23, Igor Korot wrote:

Hi, ALL,
[quote]
Nearly all libpq functions will set a message for PQerrorMessage if
they fail. Note that by libpq convention, a nonempty PQerrorMessage
result can consist of multiple lines, and will include a trailing
newline. The caller should not free the result directly. It will be
freed when the associated PGconn handle is passed to PQfinish. The
result string should not be expected to remain the same across
operations on the PGconn structure.
[/quote]

Since there may be multiple errors, I presume that in this case the string
will end with just \0, correct? It's not going to be \0\0 like with MSVC.

I don't know what you mean by \0\0 with MSVC, but it is correct that the
error message string will end with \0, like any C string.

Sorry about the confusion - I actually meant MS SQL Server.

Anyway, thank you for the confirmation.

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