Re: ecpg "problem" ...

hi,

i think that ecpg is only text preprocessor. it doesn't understand the c
semantics - it goes from the top to the end of the file row by row and
sees your declaration twice.

kuba

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
>
>         if (ic_flag == 1) {
>         /*only select those non-IC/Spyder nodes that has full update set*/
>         EXEC SQL DECLARE full_dyn_node CURSOR FOR
>                  SELECT node_name FROM NODE
>                  WHERE dynamic_community = 'f' AND ic_flag='n' AND machine_type!=22
>                  AND node_id != 0 AND NODE_NAME != :nodename;
>         }
>         else{
>         EXEC SQL DECLARE full_dyn_node CURSOR FOR
>                  SELECT node_name FROM NODE
>                  WHERE dynamic_community = 'f'
>                  AND node_id != 0 AND NODE_NAME != :nodename; (line#493)
>         }
>
> the above code generates the following error:
>
> The compiler complains:
> ../subapi.pgc:493: ERROR: cursor full_dyn_node already defined
>
> since its envelop'd in an if/else clause, shouldn't it work?
>
>
>
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