> I understand that the goal is to convert the placeholders from '?' or
> ':nn' to the PostgreSQL internal version (':pn'). What I'm referring to
> specifically, however, is this snippet from DBD::Pg:
> 
>        if (in_literal) {
>            /* Check if literal ends but keep quotes in literal */
>            if (*src == in_literal) {
>                int bs = 0;
>                char *str;
>                str = src-1; /* Back a character. */
>                while (*(str - bs) == '\\')
>                    bs++;
>                if (!(bs & 1))
>                    /* bs is an even number? */
>                    in_literal = 0;
>            }
>            *dest++ = *src++;
>            continue;
>        }
> 
> in_literal is set when the last character wasn't a placeholder
> character ('?' or ':') and is either a single or a double quotation
> mark. So while I understand that one might want to ignore placeholder
> characters, I don't really understand what the above code is doing.
> Probably'll be easier for me after I've been looking a C for a while...

One thing you may want to keep in mind is the situation concerning array
slices

If you send a statement like this

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select cube[1:2][1][1] from test4");

Then the :2 gets treated as a placeholder and gets substituted. From the
trace

dbd_st_execute: statement = >select cube[1NULL][1][1] from test4<
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "NULL" at character 14 error 7
recorded: ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "
NULL" at character 14

As no parameters have been bound to the placeholder then a NULL is
substituted and so it fails.

Or maybe I was doing it wrong and there is a way to get around this already?

Thanks

adam


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