Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:58:06PM +0100, Feite Brekeveld wrote:
> > ...
> > Exec sql begin declare section;
> > MYREC *pmr = &mr;
> >
> > exec sql end declare section;
> > ...
> > I get the message : ERROR: The variable id is not declared
> > ...
>
> Yes, this is a known limintation. It's even listed in the TODO file. For
> ECPG to be able to understand your variable it has to know the definition of
> the struct. Since it is not listed in your declare section it cannot learn
> the details and thus won't be able to parse the construct.
>
> Please try:
>
> exec sql begin declare section;
> struct {
> int id;
> char value[40];
> } *pmr;
> exec sql end declare section;
If I do that ( tried that already ) I get an eror message:
pmr is not a pointer
at the point where I reference to it in the query:
exec sql select ....bla bla ... where id = :pmr->id
Is there more detailed documentation somewhere then whats going with the
postgres distribution ?
>
>
> This should work. But be sure to use the latest CVS version as there was a
> small bug in this bug. I'm actually committing the fix right now.
>
> Michael
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