Re: [INTERFACES] question on accessing PostgreSQL with C

Hello,
Thanks a lot.
I have a PostgreSQL-6.2.1 ( in RedHat Linux 5.0), and it doesn't has "ecpg".
I have downloaded "ecpg" from internet, but don't know how to install it into my
PostgreSQL system.  Please advise.

Thank you very much.
Regards.....LCH

Michael Meskes wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:16:14PM -0600, James Thompson wrote:
> > http://www.dal.ca/%7eoracle/oradoc/DOC/api/doc/PC_22/toc.htm
>
> Gotta look at this.
>
> > With it you end up with something like the following in your code
> >
> >     exec sql
> >       insert into customer(id,name_first,name_middle,name_last,company,
> >                       address1,address2,city,state,country,zip,phone_work,
> >                       phone_home,phone_fax,email,date_entered,billing_terms,
> >                            confirmation_method)
> >       values (:id,:name_first, :name_middle, :name_last,
> >               :company,:address1,:address2,
> >               :city,:state,:country,:zip,:phone_work,
> >               :phone_home,:phone_fax,:email,date('now'),
> >               :billing_terms,
> >               :confirmation_method);
>
> Xou can even add indicators like in
>
> ... values (:id,:name_first, :name_middle:nm_ind, :name_last, ...
>
> If nm_ind is set to -1 the name_middle entry will be set to NULL.
>
> > The author of the code is very responsive to few problem reports I have
> > sent him and has sent patches, or workarounds to me usually within 24
> > hours.
>
> Glad I can help. :-)
>
> > In the few cases you can't figure out a way to make something happen using
> > ecpg I believe you can mix the libpg and ecpg code in the same program.
> > The only place I could see a need for this is when you'd need the
> > functionality given by Pro*C's Dynamic SQL which ecpg doesn't yet support,
> > but I think its in the works.
>
> It is. In fact I already submitted a patch for the PREPARE and EXECUTE
> commands. James, if you'd like to test this I can send you the source until
> it makes its way into CVS.
>
> Michael
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