Re: Leaking definitions to user programs

Hi Bruce, Hi Michael,

here is the really short patch for shutting out all postgres definitions
from ecpg
programs. (e.g. Datum, Pointer, DEBUG, ERROR).
Someone really should take a look into libpq and do the same.
But I had to copy a small part of c.h (bool,true,false,TRUE,FALSE) into
ecpg/include/libecpg.h. And ... there is a possible bug in c.h. You
can't check a
typedef via #ifndef.

typedef char bool;
...
#ifndef bool
typedef char bool;
#endif

will fail. But I don't know any decent solution to that problem!
Perhaps c.h should be broken into seperate parts.

Christof

PS: to Jacek: you need this patch to compile libcommon++.a!

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> > > Yes, leaking into user programs is a bad practice. Is there a
> > > solution/patch for that?
> >
> > A solution would be a simple patch which is not available yet. But I plan on
> > doing one (some other things still have higher priority).
> >
> > Christof