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-rw-r--r--src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
index c13f32836de..d8f88166b3c 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c,v 1.176.2.1 2005/11/22 18:23:29 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c,v 1.176.2.2 2006/01/25 20:44:49 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -1476,13 +1476,13 @@ PQputCopyData(PGconn *conn, const char *buffer, int nbytes)
}
/*
- * Check for NOTICE messages coming back from the server. Since the
- * server might generate multiple notices during the COPY, we have to
- * consume those in a reasonably prompt fashion to prevent the comm
- * buffers from filling up and possibly blocking the server.
+ * Process any NOTICE or NOTIFY messages that might be pending in the
+ * input buffer. Since the server might generate many notices during
+ * the COPY, we want to clean those out reasonably promptly to prevent
+ * indefinite expansion of the input buffer. (Note: the actual read
+ * of input data into the input buffer happens down inside pqSendSome,
+ * but it's not authorized to get rid of the data again.)
*/
- if (!PQconsumeInput(conn))
- return -1; /* I/O failure */
parseInput(conn);
if (nbytes > 0)