Re: Inconsistent compilation error

On 04/25/2018 05:33 AM, raf wrote:
> Adrian Klaver wrote:
> 
>> On 04/18/2018 06:02 PM, raf@raf.org wrote:

>>
>> Hmm, wonder if there is an oops in the below:
>>
>> http://www.pygresql.org/contents/changelog.html
>>
>> Version 5.0 (2016-03-20)
>> Changes in the DB-API 2 module (pgdb):
>> "SQL commands are always handled as if they include parameters, i.e. literal
>> percent signs must always be doubled. This consistent behavior is necessary
>> for using pgdb with wrappers like SQLAlchemy."
> 
> well spotted! but i'm not sure. it depends on what they mean by
> "literal percent signs". that might just mean percent signs that
> appear in SQL string literals that need to be output ultimately
> as actual percent signs but i thought that they always had to be
> doubled. so i'm not sure what they are saying has changed in
> that version. so maybe you are right.
> 
> but if they are suggesting that every single percent sign needs
> to be doubled by the caller before passing sql to the pgdb
> module, that sounds like an annoying change to have made.
> but no doubt they have their reasons.
> 
> i've encountered other new behaviour with pygresql-5+ that i had
> to find ways to disable/revert so it's not surprising that there
> might be other oddities to encounter. i'm surprised it's only
> become a problem now.
> 
> i think you're definitely right. when i change my function
> loading program to duplicate all percent signs in all the source
> code before passing it to pgdb, they all load successfully and a
> subsequent audit of the code inside the database and on disk
> still shows that they match, so pgdb must be de-duplicating all
> the duplicated percent signs.

You might want to raise this on the PyGreSQL mailing list:

https://mail.vex.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/pygresql

and see what they have to say.

> 
> thanks so much for spotting this.
> 
> cheers,
> raf
> 
> 
> 


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Adrian Klaver
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