Re: Request for feature - ECPGget_PGconn

Tom,

I believe you were the one to object to this proposal pre 8.3 ?

To me it seems innocuous. Most high level db abstractions allow access  
to the underlying connection.

Dave
On 17-Mar-08, at 7:26 AM, Mike Aubury wrote:

>
> Request Overview
> ----------------
> Add a function to return the current PGConn used within ecpg..
>
>
> Background
> ----------
> For years now within the Aubit4GL project we've been able to access  
> the PGConn
> record used by ecpg by the highly dubious means of accessing an  
> internal
> record within ecpg (which has now been removed/hidden).
> It would be really useful if we could get at the PGConn connection  
> via a
> formal API/function call...
>
> This would be useful to others as it would allow libpq calls on the  
> currently
> open connection to use features for which there is no direct ecpg  
> equivilent,
> or where the functionality has already been implemented using libpq  
> calls.
> (The ability to drop to a lower level of abstraction is common in  
> most db
> orientated languages/language extensions like esql/c.)
>
>
>
> Implementation
> --------------
>
> This could be implemented by adding the following code to the existing
> ecpglib/connect.c file :
>
>        PGconn* ECPGget_PGconn(const char *connection_name) {
>         struct connection * con;
>         con=ecpg_get_connection(connection_name);
>         if (con==NULL) return NULL;
>
>         return con->connection;
>        }
>
>
>
>
> TIA
>
>
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> Mike Aubury
>
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