I see the following code fragment in a legacy application that accesses Informix through C. Can anyone explain what the SQL in the code is trying to achieve? Thanks.
EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
int i_tableref;
EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
/* Some code here */
if (!i_sel_ref)
{
exec sql begin declare section;
const char *sql1 =
"select refer_num.nextval from table ( SET{''} )";
exec sql end declare section;
exec sql prepare oref_sel_fid from :sql1;
if ( sqlca.sqlcode != SQL_OK )
{
/* some code */
}
/* More code */
}
I believe it is obtaining the next value from a database sequence called refer_num. Sequences are a way of generating values for numeric unique identifiers - a bit like IDENTITY columns in some DBMSs. I don't know Informix, but my guess is that "table ( SET{''} )" is a way of generating a pseudo-table with 1 row so that you can perform a select statement that doesn't actually need to access any real database table. Oracle has a special table called DUAL for this purpose, and this would be a common sight in Oracle:
select refer_num.nextval from dual;
for getting next value of a sequence generator in Informix:
select your_seq_generator_name.nextval
from table(set{1});
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