Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Hm. But I think we'd *like* it to segfault; the idea is to make the
> > >> user's programming error as obvious as possible. Is it worth the
> > >> trouble to just zero out the pointer members of the PGresult?
> >
> > > There are only five of them; four need to be zeroed out.
> >
> > Works for me. Please commit, as I'm about to do some further work in
> > those files and would rather not have to merge ...
>
> Done. They were actually four, not five. The one I mistakingly though
> was one was the notice processor hooks.
>
> The case Martijn was saying would be warned about by the memset
> approach, setting ntuples to 0, would actually be handled as a segfault,
> because functions like check_field_number actually follow
> res.noticeHooks pointer! ISTM we would just segfault at that point.
Agreed. Anything to catch more errors is good.
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