Re: BUG #3706: ecpg regression: "MOVE FORWARD"

[Sorry for the late reply, but I've been on two business trips last week
without internet access.]

> The following statement:
>
> exec sql MOVE FORWARD :RowMove IN Sniffer;
>
> which worked correctly in 8.2.4 and previous versions, now fails to compile
> in 8.3beta1; I receive the following error message:
>
> ERROR: fetch/move count must not be a variable.
>
> This sucks and I couldn't find anything about it in the TODO list or Release
> Notes. Is this unintentional, or should I be recoding my program to use a
> loop to move forward 1 row at a time?

I'm not sure whether this has been a documented feature at all, but yes,
it got removed during the rewrite because the backend doesn't accept a
variable in this position. Also I vaguely remember not finding this
feature in the standard.

The standard way of doing this kind of statement is to write the whole
statement into a string and then "execute immediate" it. However, I'd be
willing to put this back in but fail to see how atm. The problem is that
the statement is created as a string that then gets send to the backend.
As I said putting a variable in here isn't allowed on the backend side.
Older versions of ecpg created the statement by replacing the variables
on the client side, so this didn't matter at all.

Michael
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