asynchronour queries and result testing

Hello,

I have this query in my .c program:

if (PQsendQuery(srcmain, "select userid,uid,clear_passwd,www_home,date_part('epoch',dt_block),date_part('epoch',dt_cancel) from www where uid=parent_uid and dt_modify > dt_export")) {
while ((srcmres = PQgetResult(srcmain)) != NULL) {

well as doc says,
"Each non-null result from PQgetResult should be processed using the
same PGresult accessor functions previously described."

do i understand it correctly?

/* process each returned line */
if ((srcmstat = PQresultStatus(srcmres)) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK)
fprintf(stderr, "error getting result: %s\n",
PQresultErrorMessage(srcmres));
else {
if ((srcmtup = PQntuples(srcmres)) == 6) {

I just would like to know, if, in case of problem couldn't just return NULL
and fill out error message; could I just process the result and if there's
no data (or an error), NULL would be returned and PQresStatus could be
called to see if any problem occured.

Anyway, even if I get resule with 0 tuples, I need to check PQntuples and it
returns 0.
i think checking PQntuples in big loop is quite unefficient.

could anybody comment this?

Thanks.

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