Re: ECPG bug: "unterminated quoted identifier"

When I assign the value "aaa\"bbb" to the non-host variable foo and then
assign the value of foo to the host-variable bar there no error:

int main()
{
char *foo = "aaa\"bbb";
printf("%s\n", foo);

EXEC SQL char *bar = foo;
printf("%s\n", bar);

return 0;
}

Result:
aaa"bbb
aaa"bbb

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:23 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> 1250kv <1250kv(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > void main()
> > {
> > char *foo = "aaa\"bbb";
> > EXEC SQL char *bar = "aaa\"bbb";
> > }
>
> > ecpg sample.pgc -o 1.c
> > sample .pgc:10: ERROR: unterminated quoted identifier
>
> I don't really see a bug there. While I'm not an ecpg expert by
> any means, I'd expect the EXEC SQL section to parse quoted strings
> according to SQL rules not C rules. And under SQL, that's not
> what you do to write a valid quoted identifier.
>
> regards, tom lane
>