On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:47:50AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > But yeah, specifying the connection by variable (be it string or
> > connection ptr) would be a definite step forward. Currently you cannot
> > write a generic function like:
> >
> > int getit(char *using_connection)
> > {
> > EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> > char *s_connection = using_connection;
> > int s_it;
> > EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
> >
> > EXEC SQL AT :s_connection SELECT it INTO :s_it FROM some_table;
> > return( s_it );
> > }
> >
> > which could be run concurrently by multiple threads.
Why? What doesn't work? AFAIRC the AT statement does indeed allow a
variable as connection_target.
Michael
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