Re: [INTERFACES] Do cursors work?

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, George Kousi wrote:

> I'm a new user and new in the mailing list.  Has anyone been using the
> cursors with ecpg successfuly?  Whenever I try to open a cursor, my
> system hangs completely.  Is there a version later than ecpg 1.1.0?

Hi George,

Yes there is...look on the web site.  But you may want to check
your syntax.  I use ecpg 1.1 on some boxes - with good effect.

Here is some code:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
  int c_id;
  char c_fname[100];
  char c_lname[100];
  int ClientID;         /* client_id */
  char FirstName[16];   /* client_fname */
  char LastName[16];    /* client_lname */
EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

EXEC SQL INCLUDE sqlca;

main() {
EXEC SQL CONNECT 'registry';
  if(sqlca.sqlcode) {
    printf("Error connecting to database server.\n");
    exit(0);
  }
system("tput clear");
printf("\n");

EXEC SQL DECLARE cur_sor CURSOR FOR
  SELECT client_lname, client_fname, client_id
  FROM central
  ORDER BY client_lname;
EXEC SQL OPEN cur_sor;

EXEC SQL FETCH cur_sor INTO :c_lname, :c_fname, :c_id;
    printf("\t\t   Lastname       Firstname           ID\n");
    printf("\t\t   -------------------------------------\n");
  while(!sqlca.sqlcode) {
    printf("\t\t   %s %s %d \n", c_lname, c_fname, c_id);
EXEC SQL FETCH cur_sor INTO :c_lname, :c_fname, :c_id;

EXEC SQL CLOSE cur_sor;
EXEC SQL COMMIT RELEASE;

  exit(0);
}

 Cheers,
 Tom

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