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Bug #7141 pg_exec returns true even though it failed
Submitted: 2000-10-11 17:26 UTC Modified: 2000-10-28 00:01 UTC
From: dbi at xmission dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: PostgreSQL related
PHP Version: 4.0.2 OS: Redhat Linux 6.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-10-11 17:26 UTC] dbi at xmission dot com
When I execute the following code segment with the $EmailAddress and $Password variables set to values that exist in the PostgreSQL 6.5.3 table, everything works fine.

When I execute it with values that are NOT in the table, pg_exec still returns a "true" value even though the SELECT statement never found any matching rows.  (This is contrary to what the documentation implies when it tests for !$result.)

The actual value of the $query variable, even when the query sent by the pg_exec function fails, is "Resource id #2".  Because it's not falst, there's no way to test whether the query succeeded.  So when the program goes on to execute the pg_fetch_array function, the $query variable points to nothing and the program dies with an error message.


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<?php
// -- This module checks a username and password to see who the user is.)
$db = pg_connect("", "", "", "", "tracker");
if ($db) {
    $SQLQuery = "SELECT userid FROM users WHERE username = '" . $EmailAddress . "' AND password = '" . $Password . "';";
    $query = pg_exec($db, $SQLQuery);
    if ($query) {
        $row = 0;
        if ($data = pg_fetch_array($query, $row)) {
            // Etc...

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 [2000-10-28 00:01 UTC] jah@php.net
I agree that the docs could be a bit more clear about the return value of
pg_exec(). But this is *not* a bug. Even a SELECT that doesn't return any rows
still succeeds and returns a resource id. You'll have to test whether it returned
any rows with pg_numrows(). See the example of pg_fetch_row() in manual.
pg_exec() returns FALSE in the case that the query couldn't be executed at all,
for example because it was malformed or the PostgreSQL server itself encountered
some other error (no privileges to select from a table etc.).
 
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