Re: Connection string

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:59:23AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> I'll submit a patch. However, in the case of string literals not
> working, is that a documentation bug or a code bug? Are they
> supposed to work?

You shoudl be able to use a string constant or a char * variable as
database name. There are a lot of test cases for connect available under
ecpg/test/connect now. If string literals do not work we have fix it and
add it to the test suite.

> > > a few other discrepancies between the documentation and actual
> > > behavior, like examples with "VARCHAR val;" that the preprocessor
> > > rejects with "ERROR: pointer to varchar are not implemented."
> >
> > Do you have an example? This surely looks like a bug.
>
> See several code examples in the last half of the "Using Host
> Variables" documentation:

Ah, I see. It lacks the size information. Yes, this is a documentation
bug. varchar is translated to a struct with an char array whose size
needs to be given. I think it never worked without it.

Michael
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