Re: [INTERFACES] Error in ECPG and #if...

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 05:59:13PM +0200, Pavel PaJaSoft Janousek wrote:
>     I use ECPG distributed with PostgreSQL 6.4.2. and I found next
> error..:-(

Not really.

>     ECPG don't know C/C++ preprocessing directives such as #if, #ifdef
> etc...

That's correct. ECPG only parses stuff between EXEC SQL and ';'.

> 15. #if 0
> 16. exec sql select count (*) from
> 17. exec sql commit;
> 18. #endif

This is not C code.

>     In this ECPG  say: parse error on line 16.

Yes, because ECPG parses all embedded SQL code. It does not know about cpp
code.

Michael

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