Re: ECPG: Automatic Storage allocation for NULL-pointing

From: Christof Petig <christof(at)petig-baender(dot)de>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ECPG: Automatic Storage allocation for NULL-pointing
Date: 2001-11-02 11:26:40
Message-ID: 3BE282F0.45D84760@petig-baender.de
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Michael Meskes wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:46:03AM +0100, Christof Petig wrote:
> > - it is possible to create a pointer to a varchar, simply use the
> > braindead (to me) syntax:
> >
> > varchar type[][maxlen]=0;
>
> Ah yes, the memory comes back. :-9
>
> > - ecpg and the C compiler do not agree on the meaning of
>
> Yup, one more bug to fix.

I don't care much about these two bugs once the char** patch went in. I might take a
second look at varchar pointers for binary strings. But I'll ask the standard first.

Christof

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