Re: [INTERFACES] esql\c documentation

On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 07:24:52PM -0500, Brent Waldrop wrote:
> Does anyone know where this is thorough esql\c documentation. I am trying to

Unfortunately there is no more than the man page and the sgml file
distributed with PostgreSQL. I just didn't find the time to write more.

> compile previous examples i used with informix and they will not work for
> example when i do
> EXEC SQL declare democursor cursor for
> select fname,lname
> into :fname, :lname
> from employee
> where lname < :oneline;
> ---it bombs at the line with "into" in it saying there is a parse error
> and when i do this EXEC SQL fetch democursor;
> --it tells me that there is another parse error on this line
> is there any better documenation for esql/c than whats available in the
> programming manual so that i can figure out what is going on?

To the best of my knowledge this is incorrect syntax. For instance Oracle
says:

The SELECT statement associated with the cursor cannot include an INTO
clause. Rather, the INTO clause and list of output host variables are
part of the FETCH statement.

I cannot find the text in the standard right now, but there also only FETCH
is listed with INTO.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Michael
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