Re: Host variables in ecpg

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> While trying to understand the concept of host variables in ecpg, I
> came to know that the host variables in ecpg can be declared using the
> following two methods,
>
> 1) Using the explicit declare section.
>
> EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> double d = 3.14;
> EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
>
> 2) Using an implicit declare section.
>
> EXEC SQL double d = 3.14;
>
>
> Incase of 1 (i.e. when using explicit declare section) the host
> variables gets scanned in C state using '<C>{identifier}' rule whereas
> incase of 2 (i.e. when using implicit declare section) the host
> variables gets scanned in SQL state using '<SQL>{identifier}' rule. I
> could observe that, in sql state, we perform SQL keyword lookup
> followed by C keyword lookup. However, in case of C state, we just
> perform C keyword lookup. Please refer to the following code snippets
> in pgc.l file
>
> <C>{identifier}     {
>                         const ScanKeyword       *keyword;
>
>                         if ((!INFORMIX_MODE || !isinformixdefine()) &&
> !isdefine())
>                         {
>                             keyword = ScanCKeywordLookup(yytext);
>                             if (keyword != NULL)
>                                 return keyword->value;
>                             else
>                             {
>                                 base_yylval.str = mm_strdup(yytext);
>                                 return IDENT;
>                             }
>                         }
>
>
> <SQL>{identifier}   {
>                         const ScanKeyword  *keyword;
>
>                         if (!isdefine())
>                         {
>                             /* Is it an SQL/ECPG keyword? */
>                             keyword = ScanECPGKeywordLookup(yytext);
>                             if (keyword != NULL)
>                                 return keyword->value;
>
>                             /* Is it a C keyword? */
>                             keyword = ScanCKeywordLookup(yytext);
>                             if (keyword != NULL)
>                                 return keyword->value;
>
>                             /*
>                              * None of the above.  Return it as an identifier.
>                              *
>                              * The backend will attempt to truncate
> and case-fold
>                              * the identifier, but I see no good reason for ecpg
>                              * to do so; that's just another way that
> ecpg could get
>                              * out of step with the backend.
>                              */
>                             base_yylval.str = mm_strdup(yytext);
>                             return IDENT;
>
> Shouldn't we perform both SQL and C table lookup in C state as well?
>

I spent some more time thinking over this and found that, we would
actually never come to a situation where in C state we need to have a
SQL keyword lookup and hence, SQL keywords lookup might not be
required in C state.

> Let's consider the following test where a double datatype is used
> inside the declare section.
>
>     EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
>         double d1;
>     EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
>
> In above case "double" would be scanned in C state by <C>{identifiers}
> rule which would search for double keyword in ScanCKeywords[] table
> and since it doesn't find it, it returns some IDENT keyword for it.
>
> However, if above is written as "EXEC SQL double d;" then, double
> would be scanned in SQL state by <SQL>{identifiers} rule which would
> first search for double in SQLScanKeywords[] followed by
> ScanCKeywords[]. In this case, as double is declared in
> SQLScanKeywords[], it would return some valid keyword for double.
>
> --
> With Regards,
> Ashutosh Sharma
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