preprocessor bug?

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)topsystem(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org (PostgreSQL Hacker)
Subject: preprocessor bug?
Date: 1998-02-12 08:15:58
Message-ID: 199802120815.JAA25989@gauss.topsystem.de
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IMO this is a rather serious bug:

{
exec sql begin declare section;
long i;
exec sql end declare section;
...
{
exec sql begin declare section;
short i;
exec sql end declare section;
...
}
...
some DB access into i;

The code produced by ecpg now lists i with size 2 bytes, i.e. it still
thinks i is a short.

I believe I have found a way to work around this and disregard variable
definitions as soon as they are no longer valid.

To my big surprise though I noticed that ORACLE's proc suffers from the same
bug. I hope it's okay with you that I don't care about compatibility and fix
this. :-)

Michael

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