Re: ECPG Preprocessor throws Syntax Error [Devel Repository]

>I might be missing something here, but where do you see the bug? The cursor is
>indeed already defined.

What i understand here is,we should be able to DECLARE cursor again
with the same name if that is CLOSE already.


--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> wrote:
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] ECPG Preprocessor throws Syntax Error [Devel Repository]
To: "Ahmed Shinwari" <ahmed.shibwari@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:26 AM

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:09:40PM +0500, Ahmed Shinwari wrote:
> through ECPG preprocessor which I think are potential bugs;
>
> 1- I get this error message from preprocessor,
>
> *ERROR: cursor "m_name_cursor" already defined *
>
> Below is the code snippet, error message is thrown on the last line of
this
> snippet;
>
> EXEC SQL DECLARE m_name_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name,id FROM m_table3;
> EXEC SQL OPEN m_name_cursor;
> EXEC SQL CLOSE m_name_cursor;
>
> /* Declaring cursor with the same name */
> EXEC SQL DECLARE m_name_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name,id FROM m_table4;

I might be missing something here, but where do you see the bug? The cursor is
indeed already defined.

> 2- Preprocessor throws this error;
>
> *ERROR: syntax error at or near "-"*
> ...

Fixed in CVS. Thanks for the report.

Michael
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