Re: [INTERFACES] Error in ECPG and #if...

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Pavel PaJaSoft Janousek <janousek(at)fonet(dot)cz>
Cc: PgSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Error in ECPG and #if...
Date: 1999-04-21 11:52:04
Message-ID: 19990421135204.B343@gmx.net
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On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 05:59:13PM +0200, Pavel PaJaSoft Janousek wrote:
> I use ECPG distributed with PostgreSQL 6.4.2. and I found next
> error..:-(

Not really.

> ECPG don't know C/C++ preprocessing directives such as #if, #ifdef
> etc...

That's correct. ECPG only parses stuff between EXEC SQL and ';'.

> 15. #if 0
> 16. exec sql select count (*) from
> 17. exec sql commit;
> 18. #endif

This is not C code.

> In this ECPG say: parse error on line 16.

Yes, because ECPG parses all embedded SQL code. It does not know about cpp
code.

Michael

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