Re: libpq-fe: PQgetvalue() ?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <danny(dot)milosavljevic(at)fabalabs(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libpq-fe: PQgetvalue() ?
Date: 2006-11-25 00:10:53
Message-ID: 200611250010.kAP0AsO17512@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > This has been saved for the 8.3 release:
>
> > Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> >> Shouldn't the return type of "PQgetvalue" be "const char*", then?
>
> The pluses and minuses of const-ifying libpq's API have been discussed
> before. If we were working in a green field we'd no doubt do it, but
> I'm not sure that users would thank us for breaking their existing
> working code. Adding a "const" to a function result value has direct
> impact on calling applications...

OK, I was afraid of that. Removed from the 8.3 queue.

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