Re: ECPG and structure declaration - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: ECPG and structure declaration
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Msg-id 20030922063346.GA3480@feivel.fam-meskes.de
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In response to ECPG and structure declaration  (Jürgen Cappel <email@juergen-cappel.de>)
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:46:02AM +0200, Jürgen Cappel wrote:
> why is the following code fragment an error for ecpg ?
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> struct base
> {
>     char  basekey [ 26 ];
> };
> EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

Because the struct is not used to define a variable.

The next release will be able to correctly parse this kind of definition
itself, but until then you have to list the whole struct definition
when defining the variable.

Michael
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