Re: libpq-fe: PQgetvalue() ?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <danny(dot)milosavljevic(at)fabalabs(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libpq-fe: PQgetvalue() ?
Date: 2006-11-24 23:52:03
Message-ID: 999.1164412323@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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...

regards, tom lane

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