Re: StringInfo misc. issues

Andrew Dunstan escribió:
>
>
> NikhilS wrote:
>>
>>
>> I also found the absence of a function like resetStringInfo() a bit
>> puzzling. A found a lot of places where the code was resetting the "len"
>> field to 0 and assigning '\0' to the data field to reset the variable.
>> This seems to be the only missing API which will be needed while working
>> with the StringInfo type.
>
>
> er, what? stringinfo.h has:
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> /*------------------------
> * resetStringInfo
> * Clears the current content of the StringInfo, if any. The
> * StringInfo remains valid.
> */
> extern void resetStringInfo(StringInfo str);

I think Neil added this recently. Maybe NikhilS is looking at 8.2 or
something.

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