On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Baruch Burstein <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > It seems to me that there is some inconsistency in the API. Some APIs that > take a string have an option to pass the length in order to improve > performance. Some, like sqlite3_prepare*, *include* the terminating NULL in > the length, so for "abcd" the number passed would be 5. Others, like > sqlite3_bind_text*, *don;t* count the terminating NULL, so for the above > string it would be 4. > Is there some fundamental difference between these two APIs that cause this > difference to make sense, am I misunderstanding the docs and they *do* in > fact use the same number (4 or 5?), or is it just an inconsistency that I > should live with? > > Differences are an historical accident. They cannot be fixed now without breaking compatibility. Just live with it. -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected] _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
