Re: BUG #1962: ECPG and VARCHAR

Michael Fuhr wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:24:27PM +0100, Charles Wegrzyn wrote:
>
>
>>I have code that under 8.0.3 works:
>>
>> VARCHAR t[MAX_TENANT_SIZE+1];
>> VARCHAR o[MAX_OID_SIZE+1];
>>
>>In 8.0.4 I found this throws an error during the ecpg step:
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>>tenant.ec:375: ERROR: pointer to varchar are not implemented
>>tenant.ec:376: ERROR: pointer to varchar are not implemented
>>
>>
>
>ecpg in 8.0.4 seems not to like the macros. I get the same error,
>but not if I do this:
>
> VARCHAR t[256];
> VARCHAR o[256];
>
>ecpg in 8.1beta3 works either way.
>
>
>
Michael,

Yes I found out the same thing. Unfortunately it isn't quite that
simple for me. It isn't a very good idea to hard-code fixed sizes in
executables. I have a file with all sorts of #defines in it. If the bug
doesn't get fixed it means that I will need to run CPP over the code
before I run ecpg, which is just ugly.

Chuck Wegrzyn