Re: StringInfo misc. issues

From: NikhilS <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: StringInfo misc. issues
Date: 2007-08-30 06:01:02
Message-ID: d3c4af540708292301p45027cand50aea3d29191dab@mail.gmail.com
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Apologies! As Alvaro guessed it correctly I was working with 8.2 sources.
Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
Nikhils

On 8/29/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> NikhilS <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The attached patch should fix this.
>
> And break other things, no doubt. needed = 0 is a perfectly valid
> edge case and mustn't be rejected here. (In fact, I doubt you'd
> even get through the regression tests with this patch ... how much
> did you test it?)
>
> The real problem with what you describe is that you should have used
> makeStringInfo().
>
> > I also found the absence of a function like resetStringInfo() a bit
> > puzzling.
>
> CVS HEAD is way ahead of you.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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