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1. PQfinish(const PGconn *conn) question

   Boulat Khakimov <boulat@inet-interactif.com> — 2001-03-09T17:37:36Z

   Hi,
   
   I'm wondering how safe it is to pass an uninitialized conn to
   PQfinish....
   
   I have set a SIGALRM handler that terminates my daemon and closes
   connection
   to Postgres if time-out happens. However, Im setting the alarm few times
   before the connection to Postgres was established... which means that 
   conn pointer in not initialized yet and it will be passed to PQfinish in
   my
   SIGALRM handler. Im not sure how Postgres will handle that.... so far
   that
   doesnt seem to be causing any errors but Im not sure what's actually
   happening
   behind the scenes...
   
   Any input would be appreciated.
   
   Regards,
   Boulat Khakimov
   
   -- 
   Nothing Like the Sun
   
   

2. Re: PQfinish(const PGconn *conn) question

   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2001-03-09T17:50:27Z

   Boulat Khakimov <boulat@inet-interactif.com> writes:
   > I'm wondering how safe it is to pass an uninitialized conn to
   > PQfinish....
   
   You can pass a NULL pointer to PQfinish safely, if that's what you
   meant.  Passing a pointer to uninitialized memory seems like a bad
   idea.
   
   			regards, tom lane