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| author | Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> | 2000-02-16 16:18:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> | 2000-02-16 16:18:29 +0000 |
| commit | 35ba9de276150fd3d589509a86ae651924f34cb3 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d3c867e2fbb1bd7404036f7e798e9c113fa4859 /src/interfaces/ecpg/README.dynSQL | |
| parent | 988d53e5ea6d87a284e8d3c81829e86b89455fa9 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/README.dynSQL b/src/interfaces/ecpg/README.dynSQL new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..fedcf80402d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/README.dynSQL @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +descriptor statements have the following shortcomings + +- up to now the only reasonable statement is + FETCH ... INTO SQL DESCRIPTOR <name> + no input variables allowed! + + Reason: to fully support dynamic SQL the frontend/backend communication + should change to recognize input parameters. + Since this is not likely to happen in the near future and you + can cover the same functionality with the existing infrastructure + I'll leave the work to someone else. + +- string buffer overflow does not always generate warnings + (beware: terminating 0 may be missing because strncpy is used) + :var=data sets sqlwarn accordingly (but not indicator) + +- char variables pointing to NULL are not allocated on demand + +- string truncation does not show up in indicator + |