Re: ECPG and dynamic SQL

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 08:45, Christof Petig wrote:
> Cliff Wells schrieb:
> > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 16:37, Jim Parker wrote:
> >
> >>The app GtkSQL does what you need, but it is implimented in libpq. It will
> >>give you a general idea of how to do it.
> >>
> >>Do a google search.
> >>
> >>There is another app that is similar (libpq also) a little less complex, so
> >>easier to follow, called dbui-0.4.0 A Google search will give you a URL
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I was afraid there was no way to do it using ecpg... oh well.
> >
> > Thanks for the info.
>
> Of course there is a way to do it in ecpg! Ecpg simply does not provide
> the (IMO) overloaded sqlda interface but uses the new lean get
> descriptor interface (SQL standard). See interfaces/ecpg/tests/dyntest*
> for an example.
>
> Christof
>
> PS: If you want to use this: you can even fetch into a char **results=0;
> but have to free the array afterwards.
>

Ah. Thank you very much! I don't know how I missed that. It seems the
quickest way to have someone tell you how to do something is to suggest
it can't be done ;)

Regards,

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