> I am asking for CONNECTION being a variable of data type 'connection *' rather
> than 'const char *'. That would avoid name lookups.
>
> Is that out of spec?
Yes, but the preprocessor could still add an optimization ala 'connection *' for
the hardcoded cases (exec sql set connection 'myconn1'; exec sql at 'myconn1' ...).
It needs to maintain the string list for the non hardcoded cases though.
Andreas