Document that libpq's PQgetResult() should be called after a fatal error

to fully process errors.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 49edc51dbaca20e5f5eacd77450cade4309e3b2e..59b4011b3f6c317608df77864eeb669af9cf7178 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -3846,6 +3846,15 @@ PGresult *PQgetResult(PGconn *conn);
        active and the necessary response data has not yet been read by
        PQconsumeInput.
       
+
+      
+       
+        Even when PQresultStatus indicates a fatal
+        error, PQgetResult should be called until it
+        returns a null pointer to allow libpq to
+        process the error information completely.
+       
+