On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:51PM +0100, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > > Why does the preproc spit out ECPGset_var's but no ECPGget_var's in this > > test case? > > > > Because there's no ECPGget_var()s emitted for > - global variables > - variables in the same function > > ECPGget_var() is only used in case the cursor declaration > used INTO/USING and it's in a different function from > the one where OPEN/FETCH/CLOSE reside. But this > cannot be determined easily, e.g. short of making ECPG > a two-pass precompiler, so ECPGset_var() is always used.
This shows some well thought implementation. But what I was wondering about was why this is used as test case. While I see the need to test this part of ecpg I thought this test case was added because it showed a problem without your changes. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org ICQ 179140304, AIM/Yahoo/Skype michaelmeskes, Jabber mes...@jabber.org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers