Re: I want to send comments to the backend!

Tom Lane wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?= <lists(at)ghaering(dot)de> writes:
> >> I'm quite certain that libpq does not strip comments, so the complaint
> >> isn't strictly accurate...
>
> > Then why does the attached program not work?
>
> > res = PQexec(conn, "-- foobar");
> > if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK)
>
> Because a comment isn't an SQL command. I forget what the result status
> is in this case, but COMMAND_OK ain't it.

It returns PGRES_NONFATAL_ERROR. Why should this be an error?

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