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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 18:21:58 +0100
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:40:19 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 3/2/2011 10:30 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> This is where the bug was, in interfacing the PostgreSQL client.
>  > It has nothing to do with Ada.
> 
> The error was not in interfacing with the client.

It is.

> 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.

>> And if the interface were typed that could never happen.
> 
> What prevented the GNATColl authors from providing such an
> interface?

PostreSQL.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de