Message-Id: <199909131902.VAA06721@eunet.at>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:02:34 +0200 (MEST)
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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From: theofilu@eunet.at (Theofilu Andreas)
Subject: RE[2]: [INTERFACES] ecpg and getting just assigned serial number
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Craig Orsinger <orsingerc@epg-gw1.lewis.army.mil> wrote:
> 
> On 13-Sep-99 Andreas Theofilu wrote:
> > I can write such a function, of course. But I will not break
> compatibility
> > to Informix, because both databases, PostgreSQL _and_ Informix are
> > supported in only a single source file.
> 
>         I've tried to do this myself, and in the long run I think
> you'll be better off planning on having two different versions of 
> embedded C, or at least, two different sets of functions that do 
> certain operations. Informix ESQL/C and ecpg have significantly 
> different syntax, especially regarding CURSORs and FETCHs. If you 
> keep things simple, and have some way of converting database names 
> between the two systems, you can undoubtedly do what you're trying 
> to do. Anything else and it gets really difficult. While Informix
> supports EXEC SQL IFDEF, PostgreSQL does not appear to.
> 
It is not always easy to do that and the two are different, but not
completely. However. I use a special preprocessor (lwpp [look at freshmeat
for it]) to create an embedded C file for PostgreSQL 'ecpg' or Informix
'esqlc'. I think this is the better way. Having two source trees would mean
to do everything twice and if I forget something I have two incompatible
programs.

>         An alternative might be to have a single source file that
> can be modified by a sed or awk script to conform to whatever
> embedded SQL you're using at the moment. I considered this approach,
> but didn't pursue it because I didn't have the time.
> 
look above.

>         We had a discussion here about this subject in June. The
> subject was "esql/c documentation". If you can't find it in the
> archive, I can e-mail some of the more interesting posts in that
> thread.
> 
Thanks for that tip, will search for it.


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