"Tim Barnard" <tbarnard@povn.com> writes:
> Is it necessary to call PQclear if a query that
> would normally return tuples fails?
If you got a non-NULL result from PQexec, you'd better PQclear it,
or suffer the consequences (memory leak -> eventual application crash).
regards, tom lane
Thanks.
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Tim Barnard" <tbarnard@povn.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PQclear question...
> "Tim Barnard" <tbarnard@povn.com> writes:
> > Is it necessary to call PQclear if a query that
> > would normally return tuples fails?
>
> If you got a non-NULL result from PQexec, you'd better PQclear it,
> or suffer the consequences (memory leak -> eventual application crash).
>
> regards, tom lane
>