[HACKERS] getting out boolean value from PQgetValue function

2008-01-12 Thread Arunachalam Parthasarathy
Hello all, I am using pg advisory locks in my application using libpq. When lock is obtained, the result set contains boolean value for the row locked in result set. When i iterate over the result set, i am unable to get the return boolean value in my code. The ptr returned by PQGetValue is

Re: [HACKERS] getting out boolean value from PQgetValue function

2008-01-12 Thread Tom Lane
Arunachalam Parthasarathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i iterate over the result set, i am unable to get the return boolean value in my code. The ptr returned by PQGetValue is valid, but contains nothing. why is it so? Did you check PQgetisnull()? IIRC PQgetvalue() will return a zero-length