Re: PQclientEncoding() returns -1, resulting in possible assertion failure in psql - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Mon, Dec  9, 2013 at 08:17:35AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > branches.  I would argue however that the documentation nowhere
> > suggests that PQclientEncoding can return a bogus encoding ID,
> > so this is more likely to be a bug fix than a new bug for other
> > programs as well.  Also, it looks to me like there are probably
>
> This sounds like a little bit unfair argument. The libpq documentation
> is pretty sloppy for the error case for other PQ* as well. For
> example, look at the PQdb document:
>
> PQdb
>     Returns the database name of the connection.
>     char *PQdb(const PGconn *conn);
>
> This says nothing about when the connection is bad. Reality is PQdb
> returns NULL in the case. But are we allowed to change PQdb returns
> say, "template1" when the connection is bad because the doc says
> nothing about error case?

So, what did we decide on this?  Should we document the -1 return, or
return SQL_ASCII.

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