Re: Calculations With NUMERIC Data Type In C Program

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 06:16:48PM -0300, asergioz wrote:
> ...
> PostgreSQL.  I need to perform several
> calculations, in a C program, with
> data returned from lots of fields of
> the NUMERIC (17, 7)
> data type.
> ... 
> EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> numeric(17, 7)     var_1;
> numeric(17, 7)     var_2;
> long               key = 123;
> EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

I do not know that there is a numeric datatype in C. The datatype's given in
the declare section have to be C types.

> Please, does the ECPG interface work
> with variables of the NUMERIC data
> type, as shown above?

If you can map them to a C datatype yes.

> If not, what are the alternatives?

This is the same problem you run into with any embedded SQL preprocessor
there is.

Michael
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