Re: simple example of copying data from a c/c++ array into postgres

Whit Armstrong wrote:

> can copy be used to append data to a table?

Yes.  The only thing it will not do for you is update existing rows.


> The only reason I'm hesitant to use the copy command is because I
> would have to render every row of my data to a string, and 64bit
> doubles could mean long strings, formating issues, etc.
> 
> roughly what I was thinking was (this is pseudocode):
> 
> PGtuple myTuple = createTuple();
> myTuple.push_back(toPGDate(myDate));
> myTuple.push_back(toPGDouble(myDouble));
> etc...
> 
> PGinsert_tuple(conn, myDestinationTable, myTuple);
> 
> are there facilities to do something like that, or am I really reaching here?

In libpqxx I mostly provide self-made text conversions, but you can also 
use the standard library to "print" most values into text buffers.  Just 
be sure to use the C locale where you do this, or you might end up with 
strange bugs depending on local notations!


Jeroen