Re: ECPG support for string pseudo-type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ECPG support for string pseudo-type
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Msg-id 28304.1246715517@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ECPG support for string pseudo-type  (Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>)
Responses Re: ECPG support for string pseudo-type
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Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
> in a continued effort for better Informix ESQL/C compatibility,
> we added the "string" pseudo-type handling to ECPG.
> ...
> - "string" has become a type name, reserved word in ECPG.

This seems like a sufficient reason to reject the patch.  Who knows
what that will break?  (I observe that it already broke a few of the
ecpg regression tests, suggesting that using "string" as a variable
name is hardly uncommon.)
        regards, tom lane


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