Re: Question regarding string returned from PQgetvalue

Louis Bouchard  writes:
> The query should return 0 because there are no records in the table as 
> of yet. When I run the program however, the value returned is 48.
> I used GDB to look at what was in the string and I saw this information:
> 48 "0"

You seem to have a fundamental confusion between text strings and
machine integers.  PQgetvalue is going to return a pointer to a text
string.  Use strtol or atoi or some such to convert the string to
an integer.

			regards, tom lane