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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: SRIRAMK@charlie.usd.edu
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Error in using GetAttributeByName in a function
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 94 13:07:00 -0800
Message-ID: <199412042107.NAA00394@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <941204145339.26149@charlie.usd.edu>

SRIRAMK@charlie.usd.edu writes:
> My function given below doesn't work.
>      strcpy(folder_name, (char *) GetAttributeByName(t,"fldrname"));
> WARN:Nov 26 20:44:22:GetAttributeByName: a NULL isNull flag was passed

GetAttributeByName takes three arguments.  the third argument is a
Boolean by-reference argument that indicates whether the attribute is
NULL.

this was documented incorrectly in 4.1 but the documentation was
finally fixed in the last release..
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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