Re: ECPG support for struct in INTO list

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: ECPG support for struct in INTO list
Date: 2009-08-05 11:53:50
Message-ID: 20090805115350.GC9435@feivel.credativ.lan
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On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 11:52:57AM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> This means that what I did in my first patch for this
> problem in "add_struct_to_head()" (unrolling members
> of the struct) has to be done in adjust_informix(),
> turning it into a recursive function.
> I think this would be a good solution. What do you think?

No, this doesn't seem right. There should be no need to unroll a struct.
Instead I would think struct support should be added to the get_var/set_var
functions. At least that's my guess without really digging into it.

Michael
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