Received: from localhost (IDENT:root@hectic-1.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.68.203]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA15221; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:16:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu) Received: from alumni.caltech.edu (lockhart@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA30312; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:18:13 GMT Sender: lockhart@hub.org Message-ID: <3767B225.DA868563@alumni.caltech.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:18:13 +0000 From: Thomas Lockhart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Meskes CC: Craig Orsinger , pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] esql\c documentation References: <19990614091647.A562@gmx.net> <19990616153740.B1575@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I don't know if this makes you wrong, but Informix supports > > an INTO clause in a cursor declaration. It's one of the things I had to > > change while porting some applications from Informix ESQL/C to ECPG. > > Here's what Informix says about the INTO clause in their training > > materials for ESQL/C: > So you think we should add this? I have no idea at the moment if it causes > problems with the parser but I will add this to my todo list. I'd suggest *not* adding this non-SQL92 feature. afaik it adds no functionality, so why bother messing with it? btw, OpenIngres1.1 did not have this syntax either. - Thomas -- Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu South Pasadena, California