Received: from feivel.fam-meskes.de (postfix@p3EE01527.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.224.21.39]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA46457; Wed, 10 May 2000 03:47:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from michael@fam-meskes.de) Received: by feivel.fam-meskes.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 81C282BD29; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:45:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:45:03 +0200 From: Michael Meskes To: rpicavet@nordnet.fr Cc: Postgres Interfaces Mailing List , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: looking for doc for ecpg Message-ID: <20000510094503.B2799@fam-meskes.de> Mail-Followup-To: rpicavet@nordnet.fr, Postgres Interfaces Mailing List , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org References: <8f9cr4$866$1@news.nordnet.fr> <3918F4A1.FC765C88@alumni.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i In-Reply-To: <3918F4A1.FC765C88@alumni.caltech.edu>; from lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:33:21AM +0000 X-Archive-Number: 200005/11 On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:33:21AM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > As i am a newbie, excuse me if this is not the right place to post this... > > I would like to find a documentation for ecpg, the preprocessor for C The language is embedded SQL in C. There are other docs about this for instance from Oracle. > > langage. I am especially interrested in error message,and in more particular > > the message : > > "FOR UPDATE is not allowed in this CONTEXT" It means that you cannot define a cursor as FOR UPDATE when using constructs like UNION,INTERSECT oder EXCEPT. BTW the backend would refuse to accept this statement as well. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!