Re: Using variables from c to be passed into PQexec

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 05:55, Vikash Badal wrote:
> If I do this:
> strcat(querystr,"\"DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR select * from currpass
                   ^^
> where sitename = \'tvl\'\");
                          ^^
Why the double quotes?

They turn your command into a single identifier (whose length is limited
to 31 characters):

> NOTICE:  identifier "DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR select * from
> currpass where si
> tename = 'tvl'" will be truncated to "DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR sel"
> DECLARE CURSOR command failed

I don't think you need to escape the single quotes either:
strcat(querystr,"DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR select * from currpass
   where sitename = 'tvl'");

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