Re: ECPG support for string pseudo-type

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ECPG support for string pseudo-type
Date: 2009-07-04 13:51:57
Message-ID: 28304.1246715517@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> in a continued effort for better Informix ESQL/C compatibility,
> we added the "string" pseudo-type handling to ECPG.
> ...
> - "string" has become a type name, reserved word in ECPG.

This seems like a sufficient reason to reject the patch. Who knows
what that will break? (I observe that it already broke a few of the
ecpg regression tests, suggesting that using "string" as a variable
name is hardly uncommon.)

regards, tom lane

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