From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9d5fc258548b22a
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:54:28 +0000
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID: <m2fwr4wsej.fsf@pushface.org>
References: 
 <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
	<31c357bd-c8dc-4583-a454-86d9c579e5f4@m13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
	<05a3673e-fb97-449c-94ed-1139eb085c32@x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
	<4d4c232a$0$28967$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4D4D6506.50909@obry.net>
	<4d50095f$0$22393$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net>
	<wcck4hb95jz.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
	<4d6d56c4$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net>
	<16u9ka51wbukr$.1fj2sb73j9rv6.dlg@40tude.net>
	<4d6d627b$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net>
	<29c4lixc0ght$.14kkfz1kij135.dlg@40tude.net>
	<4d6d6afb$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net>
	<1gz9984wwizn5.r619fw4z9o56.dlg@40tude.net>
	<4d6e5614$0$21954$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net>
	<l3kbmkshfm1a.151f84up7z7go$.dlg@40tude.net>
	<4d6e64f5$0$21954$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org;
 posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ";
	logging-data="13101"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";
	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+wOP1b9HFpywjW32K0RpjMmZblkmdWvn8="
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:bnLNGo70D3PKC7QSIuGe/Xk+jhA=
	sha1:zeutd3UeQ1ONt1Y2rKdrT/y11pY=
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17760
Date: 2011-03-03T07:54:28+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> The error was not in interfacing with the client. The error
> as wrapping a string parameter in quotes when it was incorrect
> to do so. It has nothing to do with Ada except to demonstrate
> that using Ada does not prevent a programmer from making the
> same stupid logic errors that programmers make elsewhere.

Actually, the error was in passing the wrong resultFormat parameter to
PQexecParams, which caused the call to return binary instead of text,
which resulted in the automatic wrapping by quotes when returned.

Which was a misunderstanding of the interface expected by the client.

Which was an error (made by the Ada programmer, of course) in
interfacing with the client.