Re: PQerrorMessage documentation

Hi,

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)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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