Re: libpq-fe: PQgetvalue() ?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > This has been saved for the 8.3 release:
> 
> > Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> >> Shouldn't the return type of "PQgetvalue" be "const char*", then?
> 
> The pluses and minuses of const-ifying libpq's API have been discussed
> before.  If we were working in a green field we'd no doubt do it, but
> I'm not sure that users would thank us for breaking their existing
> working code.  Adding a "const" to a function result value has direct
> impact on calling applications...

OK, I was afraid of that.  Removed from the 8.3 queue.

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