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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:39:57 -0700
From: Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
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Subject: ECPGstatus documentation 
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I've just spent a half hour or so trying to figure out why a call to 
ECPGstatus() was complaining about the wrong number of arguments.  The 
documentation states:

ECPGstatus() returns true if you are connected to a database and false 
if not.

However, digging through the archives, I found the following from Jan 7, 
2000:

 > ECPGstatus() seems to have changed to ECPGstatus (int, const char);
 > What exactly am I supposed to pass to this function?

The first argument is the line-number (i.e. __LINE__). The second is the
connection name. If you do not have different connections you can use 
NULL as connection name or just use "CURRENT".

Michael

So, could either the documentation be updated to reflect the correct 
parameters to ECPGstatus() or perhaps 
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y can be patched to Do The Right 
Thing?  If I had any experience with bison/yacc/lex/flex/whatever, I'd 
take a look at it, but as I don't ... :-(

Thanks.

-- 
Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>