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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:30:31 +0100
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:36:50 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> That they then have to implement this interface via the C Postgres
> SQL client should be irrelevant

This is where the bug was, in interfacing the PostgreSQL client. It has
nothing to do with Ada.

>> All problems are on the client size, which is untyped because C cannot
>> capture the set of DB types, and RDBMS is unable to describe the semantics
>> and internal representation of these types. Ada cannot save you of you are
>> sitting on top of a cesspit. You are already there, enjoy it!
> 
> You may wave your hands and rant all you like, but in fact the error
> was a simple one - the programmer of the SQL interface made a mistake
> and added quotes to strings which were being bound to parameters, where
> this should not be done.

And if the interface were typed that could never happen.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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