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Re: [HACKERS] standards question

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 1998-03-18T06:56:13Z
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Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> Is there a standard that defines how to return information from an 
> embedded SQL statement? ORACLE uses the sqlca. In particular it uses 
> sqlca.sqlerrd[2] for affected tuples. Is this correct with the 
> standards? How do other systems do that?

There is a part of the SQL92 standard which deals with this. My Date &
Darwen book has a chapter on it.

                - Tom