Doc patch applied to 7.3 and current CVS. Thanks.
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ljb wrote:
> I'm using libpgtcl with PostgreSQL-7.2.3.
> There is a discrepancy between the documentation and behavior of
> "pg_result $res -oid" when $res is not from an INSERT. The documentation
> says it should return an empty string, but in fact it returns 0. I think
> it used to return an empty string around PostgreSQL-7.1.3 when PQoidStatus()
> was used, but now it uses PQoidValue() which returns InvalidOid, 0 in this
> case.
>
> Assuming the current behavior is desired, here is a patch to the
> documentation doc/src/sgml/libpgtcl.sgml to match what really happens:
>
> --- libpgtcl.sgml.orig 2002-01-20 17:19:56.000000000 -0500
> +++ libpgtcl.sgml 2002-11-04 21:36:22.000000000 -0500
> @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@
> <LISTITEM>
> <PARA>
> if the command was an INSERT, the OID of the
> -inserted tuple; otherwise an empty string.
> +inserted tuple; otherwise 0.
> </PARA>
> </LISTITEM>
> </VARLISTENTRY>
>
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