Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:01:07 +0200
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
To: Andrew S Halper <ashalper@usgs.gov>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: EXEC SQL INCLUDE syntax
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:42:20PM -0700, Andrew S Halper wrote:
> I'm trying to port some Ingres code to PostgreSQL.  For Ingres, I had this 
> bit  of ESQL:
> 
> EXEC SQL INCLUDE '../dcl/master_table.sc';
> 
> which ecpg (2.10.0) can't digest with single quotes, and Ingres (2.5) esqlc 
> can't digest without single quotes.

ecpg only accepts double quotes or no quote at all.

> Can anyone tell me what the ESQL standard says, and if there is an easy 

I thought that ecpg does implement the standard, but I haven't checked
it lately so I'm not sure.

> ecpg  work-around?

Other than changing the code, no. It seems we do need an Ingres
compatibility mode, too.

Michael
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