OK, fixed, patch applied and attached. Are there any other ecpg
documentation additions needed?
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Edmund Bacon wrote:
> I've just spent a half hour or so trying to figure out why a call to
> ECPGstatus() was complaining about the wrong number of arguments. The
> documentation states:
>
> ECPGstatus() returns true if you are connected to a database and false
> if not.
>
> However, digging through the archives, I found the following from Jan 7,
> 2000:
>
> > ECPGstatus() seems to have changed to ECPGstatus (int, const char);
> > What exactly am I supposed to pass to this function?
>
> The first argument is the line-number (i.e. __LINE__). The second is the
> connection name. If you do not have different connections you can use
> NULL as connection name or just use "CURRENT".
>
> Michael
>
> So, could either the documentation be updated to reflect the correct
> parameters to ECPGstatus() or perhaps
> src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y can be patched to Do The Right
> Thing? If I had any experience with bison/yacc/lex/flex/whatever, I'd
> take a look at it, but as I don't ... :-(
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
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--- doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml 7 Jan 2005 05:42:27 -0000
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*** 1610,1617 ****
<listitem>
<para>
! <function>ECPGstatus()</function> returns true if you
! are connected to a database and false if not.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
--- 1610,1620 ----
<listitem>
<para>
! <function>ECPGstatus(int <replaceable>lineno</replaceable>,
! const char* <replaceable>connection_name</replaceable>)</function>
! returns true if you are connected to a database and false if not.
! <replaceable>connection_name</replaceable> can be <literal>NULL</>
! if a single connection is being used.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
