From: Warren Young
Date: November 19 2004 2:00pm
Subject: Re: Proper use of MySQL++ objects
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Verfranc Raganas wrote:
> Which is safer :
> 
> 1. mysqlpp::Connection con(mysqlpp::use_exceptions);
> 
> 2. Connection* con=0;

#2 doesn't give you working code.  You have to assign a new'd Connection 
object to con in order to do anything with it.

Once you've done that, neither is inherently safer than the other, if 
your code doesn't have bugs.

> I encountered problems in using the #2 statement.

Then your code at least one bug.