Re: LIBPQ Question

Dnia 2003-10-27 00:08, Użytkownik creid napisał:

> Problem:  Assigning a COUNT(*) result into an integer variable in my C
> program consistently fails except when I assign the same result to a char
> variable.  I can only assume that the internal data type the COUNT function
> uses is integer.
> 
> Can anyone help put me in the proper mindset so I may deal with this,
> seemingly simple issue, to resolution.
> 
> I need the integer result to to help me satisfy a dynamic memory
> requirement... COUNT(*) result will tell me how many rows of data I need to
> malloc and I cannot perform a math operation on a char variable.

All libpq results are strings.
some_int_value=atoi(PQgetvalue(...))

Anyway why do you need count(*) ? When you retrieve your rows, you can 
always check how many are them using PQntuples(...) and then malloc your 
memory tables.

Regards,
Tomasz Myrta