Re: Porting embedded SQL from Oracle to Postgres

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:57:37AM +1300, Daniel Clayton wrote:
> I am getting an error when attempting to compile using ecpg.
>
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "TYPE"
> ...
> EXEC SQL TYPE internalCompiledData_t is LONG VARRAW(RAW_BUFFER_SIZE);

Just trying precompiling this statement gives:

t.pgc:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "VARRAW"

And this is the expected result as ECPG does not know the VARRAW
datatype. I would be interested to implement this however if I find the
time.

> It appears that the syntax EXEC SQL TYPE .. is ... ; is Oracle specific, is
> there a matching syntax for ecpg?
> Or possibly a different way to achieve this datatype equivalencing?

Could you send me a file where ecpg does not accept the TYPE command? It
should be available as long as you use variable types ecpg recognizes.

Michael
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