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 -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: meskes@xxxxxxxxxx Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!
