Re: [INTERFACES] my problems with ecpg and arrays - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: [INTERFACES] my problems with ecpg and arrays
Date
Msg-id 19991112171044.A623@fam-meskes.de
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In response to [INTERFACES] my problems with ecpg and arrays  ("Coleman, Andrew" <colemana@navo.navy.mil>)
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On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 10:39:12AM -0600, Coleman, Andrew wrote:
>   I'm having problems loading (insert into ..) a c array into a postgres
> table.
> I have tried all the variations on syntax I can think of, and searched for
> the
> answer... and either didn't find it or didn't recognize it..

I'm afraid you find a real problem here. I just didn't think about inserting
arrays. If you give ecpg an array of int it inserts every single value as
one int. That means:

insert into foo(bar) values(:intarray)

is equal to:

for (i=0;i<maxarray;i++)insert into foo(bar) values(:intarray[i])

How shall ecpg see that this time it is meant to insert the whole array?

Anyone with an idea?

Michael
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