Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:33:46 +0200
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
To: =?utf-8?Q?J=C3=BCrgen?= Cappel <email@juergen-cappel.de>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ECPG and structure declaration
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:46:02AM +0200, Jürgen Cappel wrote:
> why is the following code fragment an error for ecpg ?
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> struct base
> {
>     char  basekey [ 26 ];
> };
> EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

Because the struct is not used to define a variable.

The next release will be able to correctly parse this kind of definition
itself, but until then you have to list the whole struct definition
when defining the variable.

Michael
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