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Old 04-18-2008, 09:39 AM
Joe Conway
 
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Default Re: resetStringInfo

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

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