Re: CommitFest 2009-09, two weeks on

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:05:55PM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> Yes, but technical problems and solutions do. ECPG claims
> to be ESQL/C compatible, but at places it's only half compatible.

Where does it claim to be fully compatible?

> This comment is misleading and reflects quite a narrow POV.
> Not only OPEN and DECLARE may be out of scope,
> but FETCH and CLOSE as well. The reason why ESQL/C
> allows this construct is that this ultimately allows using
> embedded SQL in event-driven code in a straightforward way.
> For this purpose, native ECPG code is not usable currently,
> or you need programming tricks, like tracking whether the
> cursor is open and protecting DECLARE and OPEN under
> some conditional branch to avoid double open, etc. A straight
> DECLARE, OPEN, FETCH(s) and CLOSE series in
> the same function is only good for batch programming.

Examples?

Michael

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