On 11 December 2012 10:39, Marko Kreen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Josh Kupershmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Would it be crazy to add an "already_freed" flag to the pg_result
>> struct which PQclear() would set, or some equivalent safety mechanism,
>> to avoid this hassle for users?
>
> Such mechanism already exist - you just need to set
> your PGresult pointer to NULL after each PQclear().

So why doesn't PQclear() do that?

Maintaining a pointer to something that no longer exists seems strange.

Under what conditions would anybody want the old pointer value after PQclear() ?

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