Re: ECPG support for string pseudo-type

Hi,

Tom Lane írta:
> Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
>
>> in a continued effort for better Informix ESQL/C compatibility,
>> we added the "string" pseudo-type handling to ECPG.
>> ...
>> - "string" has become a type name, reserved word in ECPG.
>>
>
> This seems like a sufficient reason to reject the patch. Who knows
> what that will break? (I observe that it already broke a few of the
> ecpg regression tests, suggesting that using "string" as a variable
> name is hardly uncommon.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>

OK, let me retry. This version treats "string" as a non-reserved word,
and also discovers whether the PGC contains this construct below,
as in ecpg/tests/preproc/type.pgc:

exec sql type string is char[11];
typedef char string[11];

Now all regression tests pass unchanged and ECPG also accepts
string *string;
and
string string[N];
without typedef, replacing "string" with "char".

I think it's acceptable.

Thanks in advance,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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