Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:42:22 +0200
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
To: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: ECPG failed and Postmaster getting bigger in using perl Pg
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	from sakaida@psn.co.jp on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 03:13:56PM +0900

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 03:13:56PM +0900, SAKAIDA Masaaki wrote:
>   This is a bug of pre-processor in PostgreSQL-7.0RC5.

ARGH!

>   The solutions of the bug:
> 
>  1. Don't use a struct host variable.

Not really a solution.

>  2. Apply the next patch.
> 
> *** postgresql-7.0RC5/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/type.c.orig	Wed May 10 14:45:55 2000
> --- postgresql-7.0RC5/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/type.c	Wed May 10 14:46:43 2000
> ***************
> *** 198,203 ****
> --- 198,209 ----
>   void
>   ECPGdump_a_type(FILE *o, const char *name, struct ECPGtype * typ, const char *ind_name, struct ECPGtype * ind_typ, const char *prefix, const char *ind_prefix)
>   {
> + 	if (ind_typ == NULL)
> + 	{
> + 		ind_typ = &ecpg_no_indicator;
> + 		ind_name = "no_indicator";
> + 	}
> + 

This has been in before. I have no idea where it got lost. To make matters
worse this has not made it into the archive before 7.0 was released right?

Michael
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