From 841f596b26b316d2a2393b9e36e16252b3271992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "mergify[bot]" <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:21:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document get_account() gotcha (#13713)

(cherry picked from commit f9acbd6e3f7fd8bb242dfb274a3505b66eeb52c0)

Co-authored-by: Michael Vines <mvines@gmail.com>
---
 client/src/rpc_client.rs | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/client/src/rpc_client.rs b/client/src/rpc_client.rs
index 6688edf8e9..10091ec65e 100644
--- a/client/src/rpc_client.rs
+++ b/client/src/rpc_client.rs
@@ -610,6 +610,8 @@ impl RpcClient {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Note that `get_account` returns `Err(..)` if the account does not exist whereas
+    /// `get_account_with_commitment` returns `Ok(None)` if the account does not exist.
     pub fn get_account(&self, pubkey: &Pubkey) -> ClientResult<Account> {
         self.get_account_with_commitment(pubkey, self.commitment_config)?
             .value