OK, I have applied the following patch. Interestingly, the SGML code
marked this block as outdated, but didn't remove it for some reason.
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:59:56PM -0400, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote:
> > > EXEC SQL DECLARE my_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT a,b FROM lala WHERE a= :i;
> > > EXEC SQL FETCH FORWARD NEXT FROM my_cursor INTO :tmpa,:tmpb;
> >
> > Is there an EXEC SQL OPEN CURSOR my_cursor in between these lines?
> >
> > > I check the .c file generated by ecpg and the cursor declaration is commented
>out :-(
> >
> > That's correct. It's placed at the OPEN spot.
>
> Correct, it works. But I was confused because the documentation
>(http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?ecpg-develop.html) mentions:
>
> Open cursor statement
> An open cursor statement looks like:
> exec sql open cursor;
> and is ignore and not copied from the output.
>
> This gave me the impression that no explicit OPEN is necessary to operate on the
>cursor (normal Pg behavior). If not just my misunderstanding, someone rephrase thin
>in the docs.
>
>
> cheers,
> thalis
>
> >
> > Michael
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <!--WARNING: FROM HERE ON THE TEXT IS OUTDATED!-->
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Open cursor statement</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- An open cursor statement looks like:
- <programlisting>
- exec sql open <replaceable>cursor</replaceable>;
- </programlisting>
- and is ignore and not copied from the output.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Commit statement</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A commit statement looks like
- <programlisting>
- exec sql commit;
- </programlisting>
- and is translated on the output to
- <programlisting>
- ECPGcommit(__LINE__);
- </programlisting>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Rollback statement</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A rollback statement looks like
- <programlisting>
- exec sql rollback;
- </programlisting>
- and is translated on the output to
- <programlisting>
- ECPGrollback(__LINE__);
- </programlisting>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <!--STARTING HERE IT IS OKAY AGAIN!-->
<varlistentry>
<term>Other statements</term>
<listitem>
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