Re: BUG #14167: ecpg parser cann't ignore code in #ifdef ?

HI,
Thanks very much,
Because I see EDB's document ECPGplus can parser #ifdef.
so why postgresql community not do that?
I think many PG user need it to adpate some enviroment (like Oracle , pg, db2, ...) in .pgc code.

best regards ,
digoal

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At 2016-06-01 21:43:00, "Michael Meskes" <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>> this is my pgc code.
>> ...
>> #ifdef ABC
>> err *abc;
>> #endif
>> ...
>> this is ERROR
>> ecpg -t -c -I/home/digoal/pgsql9.6/include -o t.c t.pgc
>> t.pgc:15: ERROR: unrecognized data type name "err"
>>
>> And use #ifndef and -DABC also error.
>> ECPG parser cann't skip code in #ifdef or #ifndef ?
>
>'#ifdef' is a C precompiler command and thus is only parsed by cpp et
>al. If you want ecpg to parse it you have to use 'exec sql ifdef'
>instead.
>
>Michael
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