Re: R: Re: R: Re: Weird EXECUTE ... USING behaviour

2010/1/14 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 2:17:51 pm Scott Mead wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Vincenzo Romano <
>>
>> vincenzo.romano@notorand.it> wrote:
>> > It is not the check or the select.
>> > It is the way the substitution has been implemented. It looks like the
>> > code replaces the variable name and not the value.
>> > Which is different from what is written at page 800.
>> > I only hope they won't change the manual to match the feature/bug
>> > (warning: new joke)
>>
>> Page 800:
>>
>> "Another restriction on parameter symbols is that they only work in SELECT,
>> INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE commands. In other statement types (generically
>> called utility statements), you must insert values textually even if they
>> are just data values."
>
> Scott, thanks for that I must have read through that section several times at
> least with out picking up on it.
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.klaver@gmail.com
>

Really?

That section is not in any page of the v8.4.2 documentation either PDF or HTML.
The sentence has been introduced (yesterday?) in 8.5devel, which is
far from being "current".

    I only hope they won't change the manual to match the feature/bug
(warning: new joke)

So that was not a joke at all! :-(

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Vincenzo Romano
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