On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Philip Warner wrote:
> Two routines do eccentric things when they can't find required supporting
> data:
>
> pg_get_userbyid
>
> returns 'unknown (UID=<uid-number>)' when the UID does not exist.
[Snip]
> The proposal is to return NULL in the above cases - in the final case,
> probably also generate a NOTICE.
In these cases, is NULL = 0? - What if it returns the UID for "root"
(typically UID 0)... I think an error message should/would be better in
this case.
Just my $.02.
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Dominic J. Eidson
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