Re: libpq API for PQcmdTuples()

Mihai RUSU wrote:
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> Hi
>
> I was working recently on a mid-layer in my current projects for
> abstraction of SQL backends (curently for mysql and pgsql only) and found
> out that the libpq synonime of mysql_affected_rows is PQcmdTuples. However
> I really dont see why does it return char * ?? Is there any practical
> reason for this ?
>
> Curently I do (unsigned int)atoi(PQcmdTuples()) but I really dont feel
> very confortable with strings which might change their format at any time,
> not to mention the overhead to convert from str to int each time (and I
> dont expect to use this atoi rare heh).

I think the reason it is a string is mostly historical.  You should be
find just converting it to an int.

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