| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: libpq: Remove redundant null pointer checks before free() |
| Date: | 2022-06-19 17:38:31 |
| Message-ID: | 2216816.1655660311@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> For PQclear() specifically, one thing that I thought a few days ago
> would be useful would to have it return (PGresult *) NULL. Then the
> very common pattern of doing "PQclear(res); res = NULL;" could be
> simplified to "res = PQclear(res);", which is nicely compact and is
> learned instantly.
That's a public API unfortunately, and so some people would demand
a libpq.so major version bump if we changed it.
regards, tom lane
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