From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9d5fc258548b22a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <31c357bd-c8dc-4583-a454-86d9c579e5f4@m13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <05a3673e-fb97-449c-94ed-1139eb085c32@x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <4d4c232a$0$28967$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4D4D6506.50909@obry.net> <4d50095f$0$22393$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d6d56c4$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <16u9ka51wbukr$.1fj2sb73j9rv6.dlg@40tude.net> <4d6d627b$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <29c4lixc0ght$.14kkfz1kij135.dlg@40tude.net> <4d6d6afb$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <1gz9984wwizn5.r619fw4z9o56.dlg@40tude.net> <4d6e5614$0$21954$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d6e64f5$0$21954$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:23:41 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Mar 2011 09:23:41 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 086e7fd6.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=A8Pg;1=]<7@^B]`=U:WelB4IUKRB8g3_n@D X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17764 Date: 2011-03-03T09:23:41+01:00 List-Id: On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:04:45 +0000, Simon Wright wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > >> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:40:19 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >>> On 3/2/2011 10:30 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >>> The error as wrapping a string parameter in quotes when it was >>> incorrect to do so. It has nothing to do with Ada except to >>> demonstrate that using Ada does not prevent a programmer from making >>> the same stupid logic errors that programmers make elsewhere. >> >> Of course it does. No Ada programmer would add anything to an actual >> parameter. Things are passed as-is in Ada. It was a requirement of >> untyped SQL to quote strings in a statement, as well as using other >> idiotic escape sequences. > > Actually, Dmitry, - as reported by Thomas - the value returned by > PostgreSQL was the required string, but because the result had been > mistakenly requested in binary format, when the string was returned in > the PQresult it was annotated (I expect via PQformat) as binary, so the > quotes got added (by the Ada) on the way out. Out parameter or in parameter, that is irrelevant. The problem is that "string" is requested in a "format." That is evidently untyped. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de