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From: George Hartzell <hartzell@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Bruce Taneja. <aataneja@cs.mtu.edu>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: " GetAttributeByName " ..
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 12:46:43 -0700
Message-ID: <199406271946.MAA13330@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9406271910.AA19441@cs.mtu.edu>
References: <199406270618.XAA29544@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
	<9406271910.AA19441@cs.mtu.edu>

Bruce Taneja. writes:
 > 
 > Now why does the GetAttributeByName() work OK w/o the 3rd param.
 > when running the overpaid(EMP) example in the 8.4.3 section (user manual)
 > and simply hangs when used w/o the 3rd param in the circle example .. !?

In general, if a function takes 3 arguments, and you pass it two, then
you really should expect trouble since it's going to go ahead and use
some randome system trash as it's third arg.  I'm not in a position to
go digging around in the source code to find out just what that
function does with that arg., but it's not surprising that giving it
something meaningless makes it blow up sometimes.

g.


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