Re: Change the table in a DELETE statement in ECPG

On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 05:05:10PM -0700, Matthew Denny wrote:
> Is it possible to create a DELETE statement of the form:
>
> EXEC SQL DELETE FROM :foo;

No.

> Where foo holds a table name; I have tried declaring foo as both a
> VARCHAR and a regular C string (char*, NULL-term.) but both seem to
> generate a parse error. Is my only option to use dynamic SQL

Yes.

> statements (e.g with the PREPARE and EXECUTE commands)?

Yes, that's how it is supposed to work.

Michael
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