X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (momjian.navpoint.com [207.106.42.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EEB4762D7 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:22:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.10.1) id h2KHMH614777; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:22:17 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200303201722.h2KHMH614777@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: I want to send comments to the backend! In-Reply-To: <23990.1048177895@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:22:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?= , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200303/100 X-Sequence-Number: 3849 Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > It returns PGRES_NONFATAL_ERROR. Why should this be an error? > > Actually, you don't get a "res" object at all, because nothing happened. > The only place in libpq that returns that code is PQresultStatus itself. Yes, I see that now. res is NULL and PQresultStatus() is returning PGRES_NONFATAL_ERROR. What is strange is that "" and "\n" both return an OK result, so I am trying to figure out why comments are different. > Perhaps PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY would be more appropriate? Not sure where in > the chain would be best to change the behavior, though. Yes. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073