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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier() documented with invalid signatures.
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:16:27 -0400
Message-ID: <20527.1280938587@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> writes:
> Actual signatures of libpq's functions PQescapeLiteral(),
> PQescapeIdentifier()
> is
> char *PQescapeLiteral(PGconn *conn, const char *str, size_t len)
> char *PQescapeIdentifier(PGconn *conn, const char *str, size_t len)

> that differs from signatures provided in the documentation here
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-ESCAPE-STRING

Wow ... I can understand missing the "const" declarations, but getting
the return type wrong is pretty bad :-(.  Amazing nobody caught this
before.  Thanks, will fix!

			regards, tom lane



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