Re: BUG #5268: PQgetvalue incorrectly returns 0

"Mike Landis" <mlandis@pnmx.com> writes:
> When I execute the following SQL:

> "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_name='proxies'"

> in the PGAdmmin 1.10.0, rev 7945-7946 query tool, I get "1" (the correct
> answer).  When I run the exact same SQL in a C program, I get a result set
> with one tuple and one field (so far so good), but when I run
> PQgetvalue(resultSet,0,0) I get "0" (wrong answer).

The most likely bet I can think of offhand is that your C program
is connecting to the wrong database.

> Am I missing something?  You can't do squat in a client program without
> PQgetvalue().  Is any sort of regression test being run against libpq
> functions?

libpq is exercised probably hundreds of millions of times a day,
every day.

            regards, tom lane