You may find 7.1beta has fixed this. I know some include files were
rearranged in 7.1.
> Hi Bruce, Hi Michael,
>
> here is the really short patch for shutting out all postgres definitions
> from ecpg
> programs. (e.g. Datum, Pointer, DEBUG, ERROR).
> Someone really should take a look into libpq and do the same.
> But I had to copy a small part of c.h (bool,true,false,TRUE,FALSE) into
> ecpg/include/libecpg.h. And ... there is a possible bug in c.h. You
> can't check a
> typedef via #ifndef.
>
> typedef char bool;
> ...
> #ifndef bool
> typedef char bool;
> #endif
>
> will fail. But I don't know any decent solution to that problem!
> Perhaps c.h should be broken into seperate parts.
>
> Christof
>
> PS: to Jacek: you need this patch to compile libcommon++.a!
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > > > Yes, leaking into user programs is a bad practice. Is there a
> > > > solution/patch for that?
> > >
> > > A solution would be a simple patch which is not available yet. But I plan on
> > > doing one (some other things still have higher priority).
> > >
> > > Christof
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