Re: pgsql: Several fixes to array handling in ecpg.

On 2014-04-09 12:46:35 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > Several fixes to array handling in ecpg.
> >
> > What's actually fixed by this?
>
> There were a couple of reports that data got filled into array incorrectly and at least some of those were fixed by
thepatches. 

It'd be useful to describe that in the commit...

> > The patch, or at least the comments, don't look entirely finished:
> > +       /*
> > +        * If siz i.e. the size of structure of which this variable is part of,
> > +        * that gives the offset to the next element, if required
> > +        */
>
> Not sure what you're trying to tell me here, other than that the wording is unclear.

To me that looks like somebody tried to rewrite a comment and stopped
somewhere in the middle. I don't think anybody trying to read that code
in the future is going to understand it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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