----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Meskes" <meskes@postgresql.org>
To: "Thomas Lockhart" <thomas@fourpalms.org>
Cc: "Michael Meskes" <meskes@postgresql.org>; "Nicolas Bazin"
<nbazin@ingenico.com.au>; <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] ecpg weird behavior
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:11:34AM -0800, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > btw, I was working for the first time with ecpg and was very impressed.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > A company porting from Oracle ran into very few issues. Their existing
> > code *did* have an Oracle extension to use a cursor to select multiple
> > rows into variables declared as arrays. Have you run into this syntax or
> > thought about what it would take to implement it?
>
> Do you mean like this:
>
> exec sql begin declare section;
> int amount[6];
> char name[6][8];
> exec sql end declare section;
> ...
> exec sql select * into :name, :amount from "Test";
no what would work is
exec sql select * into :var1[i].name :var1[i].amount from "Test";
>
> This example btw is taken from test1.pgc under ecpg/test and thus is
> fully supported.
>
> Michael
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