Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
>> Attached is a patch that makes a minor addition to the StringInfo API:
>> resetStringInfo(), which clears the current content of the StringInfo
>> but leaves it valid for future operations.
>
>> I needed this for an external project, but ISTM this would be worth
>> including in mainline:
>
> Sure. I'm pretty sure there are a number of places currently doing this
> "by hand"; would you mind looking around to see if you can fix 'em up
> to use this function?
I have used pfree(var.data) combined with initStringInfo(&var) in a few
places (e.g. in tablefunc.c).
Joe
