> It looks to me like the reason that the ecpg tests went into an
> infinite
> loop is that compat_informix/test_informix.pgc has not considered the
> possibility of repeated statement failures:
> ...
Correct, this was missing a safeguard.
> I know zip about ecpg coding practices, but wouldn't it be a better
> idea
> to break out of the loop on seeing an error?
I wonder if it would be better to make the test cases use the proper
whenever command instead. That would give us a slightly better
functionality testing I'd say.
Michael
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