Could anyone tell me whether the EXEC SQL PREPARE statement is to be
interpreted by the preprocessor or during run-time? That is can it be placed
outside a function? Does it have to stand above the DECLARE or EXECUTE
statement that references it or does it have to be executed prior to this
statement? 

The DECLARE statement AFAIK is to be processed by the preprocessor.
Hopefully that one is correct too. :-)

Michael
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Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:29:52 +0100
Michael Meskes <Michael.Meskes@usa.net>
preprocessor question: prepare statement
> Could anyone tell me whether the EXEC SQL PREPARE statement is to be
> interpreted by the preprocessor or during run-time? That is can it be 
> placed outside a function? Does it have to stand above the DECLARE or 
> EXECUTE statement that references it or does it have to be executed 
> prior to this statement?
> The DECLARE statement AFAIK is to be processed by the preprocessor.
> Hopefully that one is correct too. :-)

Pretty sure that PREPARE is a run-time thing, since you can dynamically
build the sql statement fed to PREPARE.

In fact, looking at my Ingres docs:

"Dynamic SQL has four statements that are exclusively used in a dynamic
program: 'execute immediate', 'prepare', 'execute', and 'describe'."

In another section, it says:

"The 'prepare' statement tells the DBMS to encode the dynamically built
statement and assign it the specified name. After a statement is
prepared, the program can execute the statement one or more times within
a transaction by issuing the 'execute' statement and specifying the
statement name. This method improves performance if your program must
execute the same statement many times in a transaction. When you commit
a transaction, all statements that were prepared during the transaction
are discarded."

Hope this helps...

                       - Tom

Thu, 04 Feb 1999 02:47:20 +0000
"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: [HACKERS] preprocessor question: prepare statement
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 02:47:20AM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Pretty sure that PREPARE is a run-time thing, since you can dynamically
> build the sql statement fed to PREPARE.

That is also possible with a compile time statement as you give it a
variable name not the variable data as argument.

But all in all I agree, and I will try to implement it that way.

Michael
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Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:30:12 +0100
Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>
Re: [HACKERS] preprocessor question: prepare statement
Okay, I got it going as long as no variables are involved, a statement is
prepared only once and not deallocated. Hopefully I get it complete before
freezing 6.5, but I'm not sure I make that deadline.

Am I correct that the wildcard used to represent a variable is
implementation defined? I know Oracle uses something like :var1, :var2 etc.
This requires parsing of the statement (right now I just store it for later
use). I'd prefer to use ";;" since this is was ecpg uses internally. What is
used on other systems?

Michael
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Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:13:42 +0100
Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>
Re: [HACKERS] preprocessor question: prepare statement